Quotes by Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector

A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.

Horse

Men

Simple

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn’t have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

Luxury

People

Sadness

And I want to be held down. I don’t know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.

Knows

Want

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.

Home

Light

People

At first she dreamed of sheep, of going to school, of cats drinking milk. Little by little she dreamed of blue sheep, of going to school in the middle of the woods, of cats drinking milk from golden saucers. And her dreams became increasingly dense and acquired colours that were difficult to dilute into words.

Dream

Drinking

School

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

Knows

Mourn

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

Being Yourself

Strange

Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam” | “She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed

Angel

Believe

Ems

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

Life

Novelists

Saying Yes

For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.

Film

Moments

Stars

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Angel

Answers

Becoming

Being Yourself

Believe

Cheating

Choices

Curiosity

Destiny

Dream

Drinking

Ems

Existence

Facts

Fall

Fate

Feels

Film

Found

Given

Hands

Home

Hope Love

Horse

Humans

Ideas

Ignorance

Instantaneous

Joy

Knowing

Knows

Lasts

Law

Life

Light

Lost

Lost And Found

Luxury

Mature

Mean

Men

Mind

Moments

Monsters

Mourn

Novelists

One Day

People

Persons

Pigs

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Quotes by Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector

A horse is freedom so indominable that it becomes useless to imprison it to serve man: it lets itself be domesticated, but with a simple, rebellious toss of the head-shaking its mane like an abundance of free-flowing hair-it shows that its inner nature is always wild, translucent and free.

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn’t have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

And I want to be held down. I don’t know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.

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.

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

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam” | “She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.

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