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Quotes from An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures — Clarice Lispector

1920–1977 Brazil

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

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1968)

Could love be giving your own solitude to another? Because that's the ultimate thing you can give of yourself.

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1968)

I’m an insurmountable mountain along my own path. But sometimes through a word of yours or a word I read, suddenly everything becomes clear.

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1968)

Oh God! Having just one life was so little.

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1968)

Ah how much easier to to bear and understand pain than that promise of spring’s frigid and liquid joy. And with such modesty she was awaiting it: the poignancy of goodness.

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1968)

Remembering that day, which she saw again, she thought that from now on this was all she wanted from the God: to rest her chest on him, and not say a word.

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1968)

There could only be a meeting of their mysteries if one surrendered to the other: the surrender of two unknowable worlds done with the trust with which two understandings might surrender to each other.

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1968)

Humility in living isn’t my strong point. But when I write I’m fated to be humble. Though within limits. Because the day I lose my own importance inside me — all will be lost.

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1968)

we were only made for the little silence, not for the silence of the stars.

An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures (1968)

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