“Ça, si doux : ne pas fuir, mais aller.”
Clarice Lispector livre Near to the Wild Heart
Near to the Wild Heart
Clarice Lispector est une femme de lettres brésilienne. Elle est née le 10 décembre 1920 de parents juifs à Tchéchelnik, un petit village d'Ukraine et morte le 9 décembre 1977 à Rio de Janeiro. Épouse de diplomate, mystique, elle est reconnue internationalement pour ses romans novateurs, mais elle est aussi une grande nouvelliste et une journaliste de renom, ayant assuré une chronique nationale de façon régulière.
Bien que le mot écrivain ait un féminin en portugais, Clarice Lispector refusa toujours son utilisation, assurant « appartenir aux deux sexes ». Elle est décrite par Benjamin Moser, comme : l'écrivain juif la plus importante depuis Kafka. Wikipedia

“Ça, si doux : ne pas fuir, mais aller.”
Clarice Lispector livre Near to the Wild Heart
Near to the Wild Heart
“Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”
The Hour of the Star (1977)
Source: A Hora Da Estrela
Clarice Lispector livre The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star (1977), p. 11
“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”
Clarice Lispector livre The Passion According to G.H.
Source: The Passion According to G.H.
“She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”
Clarice Lispector livre The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector livre The Passion According to G.H.
Source: The Passion According to G.H.
Clarice Lispector livre The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
“For one has the right to shout.
So, I am shouting.”
Clarice Lispector livre The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector livre Near to the Wild Heart
Near to the Wild Heart (1943), p. 65
“There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.”
An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Delights (1968)
“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.”
Clarice Lispector livre The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”
Clarice Lispector livre The Hour of the Star
Variante: I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
Source: The Hour of the Star (1977), p. 11
“I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.”
Clarice Lispector livre The Passion According to G.H.
Source: The Passion According to G.H. (1964), p. 5
“Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.”
Clarice Lispector livre The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
“Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?”
Clarice Lispector livre A Breath of Life
Source: A Breath of Life
Clarice Lispector livre The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector livre Near to the Wild Heart
Source: Near to the Wild Heart
Clarice Lispector livre The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star
Source: The Stream of Life
“But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.”
Clarice Lispector livre The Hour of the Star
Source: The Hour of the Star