Clarice Lispector

Brazil
10 Dec 1920 // 9 Dec 1977
Writer

And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.

The Passion According to G.H.

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The Passion According to G.H.

Clarice Lispector

 

On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays