Quotes By Author: Clarice Lispector

“The future, at least, had the advantage of not being the present, and the worse can always take a turn for the better… For, strange though it may seem, she had faith. Composed of fine organic matter, she existed. Pure and simple.”

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

“Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn’t know the law — for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn’t know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.”

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

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