I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
Clarice LispectorMy life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
Clarice LispectorBut I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: Iām subterraneously unattainable because of what I know.
Clarice LispectorI do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.
Clarice Lispector