Clarice Lispector: Frases em inglês

Clarice Lispector era Escritora ucraniano-brasileira. Frases em inglês.
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“Who hasn't asked oneself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”

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Clarice Lispector

The Hour of the Star (1977)
Fonte: A Hora Da Estrela

“Everything in 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 prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I do not know why, but I do know that the universe never began.”

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Clarice Lispector livro A Hora da Estrela

Fonte: The Hour of the Star (1977), p. 11

“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”

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Clarice Lispector livro A Paixão segundo G.H.

Fonte: The Passion According to G.H.

“Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting”

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Clarice Lispector

Fonte: A Hora Da Estrela

“She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed”

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Clarice Lispector livro A Hora da Estrela

Fonte: The Hour of the Star

“What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.”

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Clarice Lispector livro A Paixão segundo G.H.

Fonte: The Passion According to G.H.

“You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.”

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Clarice Lispector

Fonte: The Stream of Life

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

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Clarice Lispector livro A Hora da Estrela

Fonte: The Hour of the Star

“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me.”

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Clarice Lispector livro Um Sopro de Vida

Fonte: A Breath of Life

“Perhaps I have not been made for the pure, expansive waters, but for those which are small and readily accesible. And perhaps my craving for another source, which gives me the expression of someone in search of food, perhaps this craving is a whim - and nothing more. Yet surely those rare moments of self-confidence, of blind existence, of happiness as intense and serene as an organ playing - surely those moments prove that I am capable of fulfilling my quest and that this longing which consumes my whole being is not merely some whim? Moreover, that whim is the truth!”

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Clarice Lispector livro Perto do Coração Selvagem

Near to the Wild Heart (1943), p. 65

“There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.”

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Clarice Lispector

An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Delights (1968)

“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”

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Clarice Lispector

Fonte: The Stream of Life

“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”

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Clarice Lispector livro A Hora da Estrela

Variante: I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
Fonte: The Hour of the Star (1977), p. 11

“I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.”

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Clarice Lispector livro A Paixão segundo G.H.

Fonte: The Passion According to G.H. (1964), p. 5

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

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Clarice Lispector livro A Hora da Estrela

Fonte: The Hour of the Star