Clarice Lispector: Frases en inglés

Clarice Lispector era escritora ucraniana-brasileña. Frases en inglés.
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“I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.”

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Clarice Lispector libro A Breath of Life

Fuente: A Breath of Life

“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?”

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Clarice Lispector libro Near to the Wild Heart

Fuente: Near to the Wild Heart

“No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.”

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Clarice Lispector libro La hora de la estrella

Fuente: The Hour of the Star

“But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know.”

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Clarice Lispector

Fuente: The Stream of Life

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

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Clarice Lispector libro La hora de la estrella

Fuente: The Hour of the Star

“Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought.... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.”

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The Passion According to G.H. (1964), p. 169

“Was that, then, the way we do things? "Not knowing"— was that the way the most profound things happened?… Was the secret of never escaping from the greater life the secret of living like a sleepwalker?”

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The Passion According to G.H. (1964), p. 159

“Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.”

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An Apprenticeship, or The Book of Delights (1968)

“At first she dreamed of sheep, of going to school, of cats drinking milk. Little by little she dreamed of blue sheep, of going to school in the middle of the woods, of cats drinking milk from golden saucers. And her dreams became increasingly dense and acquired colours that were difficult to dilute into words.”

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Clarice Lispector libro Near to the Wild Heart

Near to the Wild Heart (1943), p. 43

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

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Clarice Lispector libro La hora de la estrella

The Hour of the Star (1977)