Clarice Lispector Inspirational Quotes (33)

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

I work only with lost and founds.

Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for I even used words without really knowing what they meant.

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?

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.

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