It is common to find on the internet phrases and texts attributed to an important person (ruler, writer, philosopher, etc.). However, not always the quote or the authorship is correct. Therefore, today we will check 30 phrases from Clarice Lispector, a writer who left her legacy.

But of course, they will be quotes that are really hers, so not only will you get to know amazing phrases from this author, but you will also be able to add them, without fear, to your status.

Author's Biography

Clarice Lispector was born in 1920 in the Ukrainian city of Tchetchelnik. She moved to Brazil with her family, who were of Jewish origin. Initially, in 1922, they lived in Maceió (AL) and later moved to Recife (PE).

From an early age Clarice showed interest in reading and writing. Thus, in 1930 she wrote the play "Pobre Menina Rica" (Poor Little Rich Girl). After that, she moved in 1935 with her family to Rio de Janeiro. In 1939, Clarice started to study Law at the National College and, in 1940, she moved to the Catete neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro.

In 1940, she began her career as a journalist, working as an editor and reporter for the Agência Nacional. Despite the good news, she suffered two losses: her mother died in 1930, and her father in 1940, but she kept going.

His biography does not stop there...

In 1943, Clarice finished law school and married Maury Gurgel Valente, publishing her first novel, "Perto do Coração Selvagem", which won awards and critical acclaim.

For many years she lived in Europe accompanying Maury, who was Consul. In 1946 she published her second novel: "O Lustre". Then she started writing "A Cidade Sitiada" (The Besieged City), which was published in 1949. Already in 1948, Pedro, her first son, was born. In other words, it was a reason for much happiness.

In 1951, she returns to Brazil and in 1952 she moves to Washington (USA), where she eventually recovers the notes she made in England and starts to write her fourth novel: "The Apple in the Dark". In 1953, her second child is born.

Clarice didn't stop for a minute

Throughout this period, Clarice wrote short stories and chronicles for newspapers and magazines. In 1952 she published "Alguns Contos" (Some Stories) and wrote for O Comício, on the page "Entre mulheres" (Among Women). In the same year, she began publishing short stories in Senhor magazine and the column "Correio feminino - Feira de utilidades" (Women's mail - Utilities fair) in Correio da Manhã, under pseudonyms.

In the 1960s, she published Laços de Família, a book of short stories that won the Jabuti Award. In 1964 she published "A Paixão Segundo G.H." and, in 1965, the collection of short stories and chronicles "A Legião Estrangeira".

In 1966, she accidentally set fire to her house and was hospitalized for two years. Fortunately, she survived, but with physical and psychological sequels. In the following years, 1967 and 1968, she dedicated herself to writing children's literature and published "The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit" and "The Woman Who Killed the Fishes".

Despite the difficulties, the work has not stopped

Clarice continued to collaborate with different newspapers and magazines, such as Jornal do Brasil and Manchete. Between 1969 and 1973, she published Felicidade Clandestina, a selection of short stories, and the novel Água Viva. She also began translating various works after 1974.

In the same year, he published "Onde estivestes de noite", the novel "A Via Crucis do Corpo", and the children's book "A Vida Íntima de Laura". In 1975 he published "Visão do Esplendor", containing chronicles he wrote for newspapers, as well as a selection of interviews he gave to the Rio de Janeiro press, called "De Corpo Inteiro".

It is worth remembering that Clarice Lispector also devoted herself to painting, producing a total of 18 paintings, and in 1976 she won a prize from the Cultural Foundation of the Federal District. The following year she published "Quase de Verdade" (Almost Truly), a book dedicated to children, as well as a collection of 12 Brazilian legends called "Como Nasceram as Estrelas" (How the Stars Were Born) and the novel "A Hora da Estrela" (The Hour of the Star).

Finally, on December 9, 1977, at the age of 56, Clarice passed away. In this sense, the writer left us a fundamental legacy to Brazilian literature.

30 sentences by Clarice Lispector

We have selected for you 30 sentences by Clarice Lispector, so check them out below.

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"I always keep opening myself, opening and closing circles of life, throwing them aside, withered, full of the past." (Clarice Lispector. Close to the Wild Heart)

"There isn't a man or woman who hasn't looked in the mirror and been surprised at himself or herself. For a fraction of a second, one sees oneself as an object to be looked at. This might be called narcissism, but I would call it: the joy of being.

"Truth is always an inexplicable inner contact" (Clarice Lispector. The Hour of the Star)

"Who hasn't asked himself: am I a monster or is this being a person?" (Clarice Lispector. The Hour of the Star)

"But that when writing - that the real name be given to things. Each thing is a word. And when you don't have it, you invent it." (Clarice Lispector. The Hour of the Star)

"I am a little afraid: afraid still to give myself up because the next instant is the unknown. The next instant is made by me? we do it together with our breathing. And with a bullfighter's resourcefulness in the arena" (Clarice Lispector. Living Water)

"My theme is the instant? my theme is life" (Clarice Lispector. Living Water)

"The great favor of chance: to be still alive when the great world began. As for what's coming: we need to smoke less, take care of ourselves, to have more time and live and see a little more; and ask the scientists to hurry - because our personal time is running out." (Clarice Lispector. Cosmonaut on Earth)

"Yes. A wonderful, lonely woman. Fighting above all against the very prejudice that advised her to be less than she was, that ordered her to bend." (Clarice Lispector. So much effort)

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"Yes, I want the ultimate word that is also so first that it is already confused with the intangible part of the real." (Clarice Lispector. Água Viva)

"I write as if to save someone's life, probably my own" (Clarice Lispector. Learning to Live)

"But there is a great, the greatest obstacle to my going forward: myself. I have been the greatest difficulty in my path. It is with enormous effort that I manage to overcome myself." (Clarice Lispector. An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures)

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"But it is not always necessary to become strong. We have to respect our weakness. So, it is the soft tears, of a legitimate sadness to which we are entitled." (Clarice Lispector. When to cry)

"Sometimes the hatred is not declared, it takes exactly the form of a special devotion and humility." (Clarice Lispector. Behind the devotion)

"Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

"It is that now I feel the need for words - and what I write is new to me because my real word has been untouched until now. The word is my fourth dimension" (Clarice Lispector. Living Water)

"What I have painted on this canvas is capable of being phrased in words? as much as the mute word can be implied in the musical sound" (Clarice Lispector. Água Viva)

"The present is the instant when the wheel of the automobile at high speed touches the ground minimally. And the part of the wheel that has not yet touched, will touch in an immediacy that absorbs the present instant and makes it past." (Clarice Lispector. Living Water)

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"And I drink coffee with gusto, all alone in the world. No one interrupts my nothingness. It is a nothingness at the same time empty and rich" (Clarice Lispector. Unhappy and Happy Insomnia)

"I beg you not to shorten life. Live. Live. It's hard, it's tough, but live. I'm living too." (Clarice Lispector. A request)

"Saudade is a bit like hunger. It only passes when you eat the presence." (Clarice Lispector. Saudade)

"So many want projection, without knowing how it limits life. My little projection hurts my modesty. Even what I wanted to say I can no longer say. Anonymity is as soft as a dream" (Clarice Lispector. Anonymity)

"I write now because I need money. I wanted to keep quiet. There are things I never wrote, and I will die without having written them. Those for no money." (Clarice Lispector. Anonymity)

"The reader character is a curious, strange character. At the same time entirely individual and with reactions of his own, he is so terribly attached to the writer that in fact he, the reader, is the writer." (Clarice Lispector. Another Letter)

"I don't want the terrible limitation of those who live only on what can make sense. I don't: I want an invented truth." (Clarice Lispector. Learning to Live)

"The vastness seemed to calm her, the silence regulated. She fell asleep inside herself." (Clarice Lispector. Love)

"Don't worry about 'understanding'. Living surpasses all understanding." (Clarice Lispector. The Passion According to G.H.)

"Only God would forgive what I was because only He knew what He had made me and for what. I let myself be His matter. To be God's matter was my only kindness" (Clarice Lispector. Another Letter)

"This desire for one to be the other for a whole unification is one of the most urgent feelings one has in life." (Clarice Lispector. Saudade)

Final considerations about Clarice Lispector's sentences

We hope you have enjoyed knowing a little bit more about the writer Clarice Lispector, who has left us a varied and incredible work.

Because of his complex writing, the psychological density of his characters, and his approach to deep themes such as relationships, feelings, and behavior with sophistication and lyricism, his books are not always simple to understand and interpret.

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