Clarice Lispector Quotes - Page 3

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• But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.

  Clarice Lispector

  Forget, Strawberries, Seasons

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• For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

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  Philosophical, Ends, Get Away

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• Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.

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  Men, Needs, Praise

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• Facts and particulars annoy me.

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  Facts, Annoying

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• Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.

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  Love, Life, Passion

  Clarice Lispector (2012). “The Passion According to G.H.”, p.193, New Directions Publishing

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

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  World, Goodness, Planes

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• I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.

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  Cheating, Believe, Want

  Clarice Lispector (2012). “Água Viva”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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