Clarice Lispector Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life
Clarice Lispector quotes that inspire a great attitude towards life That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life
1. A man told me that in the Talmud it says there are things that can be said to many people, others to few people, and others to no one. To which I would add: there are certain things I don’t even want to tell myself.
Author:- Clarice Lispector
Category:- wisdom
2. I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
The Hour of the Star
Author:- Clarice Lispector
Category:- truth
3. In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
The Passion According to G.H.
Author:- Clarice Lispector
Category:- truth
4. I use myself as a form of knowledge. I know you through and through, by means of an incantation that comes from me to you. To stretch out savagely while an inflexible geometry vibrates behind everything.
The Hour of the Star
Author:- Clarice Lispector
Category:- knowledge
5. Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.
The Passion According to G.H.
Author:- Clarice Lispector
Category:- knowledge
6. Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought, but I was and am fatefully impelled to have to know what thought thinks. Reality precedes the voice that seeks it, but like the earth precedes the tree, but like the world precedes the man, but like the sea precedes the view of the sea, life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. - , The Passion According to G.H.
Author:- Clarice Lispector
Category:- philosophy
