In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
Clarice LispectorAnd I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
Clarice LispectorAnd now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me? Don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.
Clarice LispectorI want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.
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