Clarice Lispector

Brazil
10 Dec 1920 // 9 Dec 1977
Writer

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

The Hour of the Star

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The Hour of the Star

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