
A Breath of Life

I am looking for somebody whose life I can save. The only one who allows me to do that is Angela. And as I save her life, I save my own.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
When I say I love you, I am loving me in you.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
I want to see new things — and I’ll only manage to do that if I lose my fear of madness.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
The cactus is full of rage with fingers all twisted and it’s impossible to caress it: it hates you with each piercing spine because it also feels the pain of the spine that pierced its own thick flesh first.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
with this book I, it seems I’m emancipating myself.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
I am urgently needing to be born. It’s really hurting me.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
I write to bring things into existence and to exist myself.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
“There’s a book inside all of us,” they say.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
I do without real reality and find comfort in living from my imagination.