“What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.”Clarice Lispector book The Passion According to G.H.Source: The Passion According to G.H.
“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me.”Clarice Lispector book A Breath of LifeSource: A Breath of Life
“I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”Clarice Lispector book A Breath of LifeSource: A Breath of Life
“Was that, then, the way we do things? "Not knowing"— was that the way the most profound things happened?… Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?”Clarice Lispector The Passion According to G.H. (1964), p. 159