Clarice Lispector Quotes - Page 2

And 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 Lispector

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

Clarice Lispector

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

Clarice Lispector

I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.

Clarice Lispector

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.

Clarice Lispector

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

Clarice Lispector

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

Clarice Lispector