Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
5 quotes
"Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?"
"I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?"
"Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing."
"Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam" | "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed"
"I just remembered a time when to warm up my spirit I prayed: movement is spirit. Prayer was a means of mutely and hidden from others reaching myself. When I prayed I achieved an emptiness of soul - and that emptiness is all I can ever have. Besides that, nothing. But the emptiness has the value and appearance of plenty. One way of getting is not looking, one way of having is not asking and only believing that the silence I believe to be inside me is the answer to my - to my mystery."