Clarice Lispector Shorts

Description: Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

Description: Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian, Ukrainian-born writer of Jewish background. She was recognized for her short stories and novels, which frequently employed the stream-of-consciousness style.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: Listen, It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: I 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.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: No, it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy. Often before falling asleep - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and enter the greater world - often, before having the courage to go toward the greatness of sleep, I pretend that someone is holding my hand and I go, go toward the enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even then I can't find the courage, then I dream.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what js fully mature is very close to rotting.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: I want the follow ing word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: But 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: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: I 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.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: 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.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: the world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: She believed in angels, and because she believed, they existed.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort

Description: Bold pop art stencil portrait of Clarice Lispector, the visionary Brazilian novelist and short story writer widely regarded as one of the greatest literary voices of the 20th century. A striking tribute to an icon of world literature.

Description: Bold pop art stencil portrait of Clarice Lispector, the visionary Brazilian novelist and short story writer widely regarded as one of the greatest literary voices of the 20th century. A striking tribute to an icon of world literature.

Description: Bold pop art stencil portrait of Clarice Lispector, the visionary Brazilian novelist and short story writer widely regarded as one of the greatest literary voices of the 20th century. A striking tribute to an icon of world literature.

Description: Bold pop art stencil portrait of Clarice Lispector, the visionary Brazilian novelist and short story writer widely regarded as one of the greatest literary voices of the 20th century. A striking tribute to an icon of world literature.

Description: Bold pop art stencil portrait of Clarice Lispector, the visionary Brazilian novelist and short story writer widely regarded as one of the greatest literary voices of the 20th century. A striking tribute to an icon of world literature.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: O que não sei dizer é mais importante do que o que eu digo.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: Ouve, por eu ter mergulhado no abismo é que estou começando a amar o abismo de que sou feita.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote:Eu nunca fui livre na minha vida inteira. Por dentro eu sempre me persegui. Eu me tornei intolerável para mim mesma. Vivo numa dualidade dilacerante. Eu tenho uma aparente liberdade mas estou presa dentro de mim.

Description: Clarice Lispector quote: I’ve never been free in my whole life. Inside I’ve always chased myself. I’ve become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I’m seemingly free, but I’m a prisoner inside of me.