The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.
Clarice LispectorI write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.
Clarice LispectorWhat I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.
Clarice LispectorWho has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?
Clarice Lispector