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Quotes from Um Sopro de Vida — Clarice Lispector

1920–1977 Brazil

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11 quotes

I must live little by little, it's no good living everything at once. (p27)

Um Sopro de Vida (1978)

Let the author beware of popularity, otherwise he will be defeated by success. (p144)

Um Sopro de Vida (1978)

Suffering for a being deepens the heart within the heart. (p52)

Um Sopro de Vida (1978)

He who emphasizes the ritual of faith can lose the point of faith. (p141)

Um Sopro de Vida (1978)

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself? (p43)

Um Sopro de Vida (1978)

...danger is what makes life precious.
Death is the constant danger of life.

Um Sopro de Vida (1978)

I really like things I don't understand: when I read a thing I don't understand I feel a sweet and abysmal vertigo. (p29)

Um Sopro de Vida (1978)

I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest. (p12)

Um Sopro de Vida (1978)

I don't have anything to nourish me: I eat myself (p109)

Um Sopro de Vida (1978)

I'm not a dreamer. I only daydream to attain reality. (p43)

Um Sopro de Vida (1978)

What an effort I make to be myself. I struggle against a tide in a boat with just enough room for my two feet in a perilous and fragile balance. (p27)

Um Sopro de Vida (1978)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Clarice Lispector (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.