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Quotes About Emotion

Mis desequilibradas palabras son el lujo de mi silencio.
~ Clarice Lispector
Mas lembrar-se com saudade é como se despedir de novo.
~ Clarice Lispector
Do you know it's a lie? That I didn't dream about you?
~ Clarice Lispector
Understand me: I write you an onomatopoeia, convulsion of language.
~ Clarice Lispector
she is a harmless virgin whom nobody needs. It strikes me that I don't need her either and that what I am writing could be written by another. Another writer, of course, but it would have to be a man for a woman would weep her heart out.
~ Clarice Lispector
Living leaves me atremble.
~ Clarice Lispector
Não ter nascido bicho parece ser uma de minhas secretas nostalgias.
~ Clarice Lispector
Inside her it was as if death didn't exist, as if love could weld her, as if eternity were renewal.
~ Clarice Lispector
Lo único que estropea la felicidad es el miedo
~ Clarice Lispector
Being happy is for what?
~ Clarice Lispector
In no sense an intellectual, I write with my body.
~ Clarice Lispector
Queria tanto morrer de saúde. Como quem explode. Éclate é melhor: j'éclate.
~ Clarice Lispector
Everything struck her at times as too precious, impossible to touch. And, at times, what people used as air to breathe, was weight and death for her.
~ Clarice Lispector
Suddenly I was crying. It was already love.
~ Clarice Lispector
I realize now that it was a certain apathy, rather than peace, that turned my acts and my desires to ash.
~ Clarice Lispector
The last time I came down from the enchanted saddle, my human sadness was so great that I swore never to again. The ride, however, continues on in me. I converse, I clean the house, I smile, but I know that the ride is within me.
~ Clarice Lispector
Nunca la olvidé: jamás se olvida a una persona con la que se ha dormido.
~ Clarice Lispector
O senhor não compreende, disse ela de novo irritada, que eu não posso pedir? porque preciso de tanto que ninguém pode me dar?
~ Clarice Lispector
Solamente otra persona que lo hubiera experimentado sabría lo que ella sentía, pues de casi todo lo que importa no se sabe hablar.
~ Clarice Lispector
What does it feel like to have a girl?" said the man, chewing. Her father wiped his mouth with his napkin, tilted his head to one side and said smiling: "Sometimes it feels like I have a warm egg in my hand. Sometimes, nothing: total memory loss…Occasionally it feels like I have a girl of my own, really mine.
~ Clarice Lispector
As for music, where does it go? The only concrete thing in music is the instrument.
~ Clarice Lispector
The steel suddenly touched her heart. Ah, jealousy, it was jealousy, the cold hand mashing her slowly, squeezing her, diminishing her soul.
~ Clarice Lispector
Estamos intentando la alegría! ¿Sientes al menos eso? ¿Y sientes cómo nos arriesgamos en el peligro? ¿Sientes que hay más seguridad en el dolor tibio?
~ Clarice Lispector
One thing I do know: love, however violent, is pure. And that is how I have come to discover that I am not pure.
~ Clarice Lispector