
A Breath of Life

When I think, I ruin everything. That’s why I avoid thinking:
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
I wonder if someone could simply decide: today is going to be an important day in my life.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
You must understand me: I had to invent a being that was entirely mine. But it so happens that she’s becoming too powerful.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
Trying to possess Angela is like trying desperately to grab hold of the reflection in the mirror of a rose. Yet all I had to do was turn away from the mirror and I would have the rose itself.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
I had a vivid and inexplicable dream: I dreamed I was playing with my reflection. But my reflection wasn’t in a mirror, but reflected somebody else who wasn’t me.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
I cloistered in my narrow, anguished little world, not knowing how to leave to breathe in the beauty of what’s outside me.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
I want the truth which is only given to me though its opposite, through its untruth.
Clarice Lispector • A Breath of Life
a reality that constantly escapes me.