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Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector QUOTES

Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector QUOTES

1 " There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all. "

― Benjamin Moser , Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

2 " I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason. "

― Benjamin Moser , Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

3 " Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent; one can be called and not know how to go. "

― Benjamin Moser , Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

4 " Clarice scrawled, 'A question from when I was a little girl that I can answer only now: are rocks made, or are they born? Answer: rocks are. "

― Benjamin Moser , Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

5 " As time goes by, especially in the last few years, I’ve lost the knack of being a person. I no longer know how one is supposed to be. And an entirely new kind of ‘solitude of not belonging’ has started invading me like ivy on a wall. "

― Benjamin Moser , Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

6 " A little girl's fantasies are one thing, and literature is another; just as numbers require rules to give them human meaning, words, too, demand a form to turn them into literature. "

― Benjamin Moser , Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

7 " Everything touches me—I see too much, I hear too much, everything demands too much of me. "

― Benjamin Moser , Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector