With My Dog Eyes Quotes

“With my dog-eyes I stop before the sea. Tremulous and sick. Bent, thin, I smell fish in the driftwood. Fishbone. Tail. I gaze at the sea but don’t know its name. I remain standing there, askance, and what I feel is also nameless. I feel my dog body. I don’t know the world, nor the sea in front of me. I lie down because my dog body orders it. There’s a bark in my throat, a gentle howl. I try to expel it but man-dog I know that I’m dying and I will never be heard. Now I’m a spirit. I’m free and fly over my miserable being, my abandonment, the nothing that contains me and that made me on Earth. I am rising, wet like fog.”
― Hilda Hilst, With My Dog Eyes

“The shortness of life, the dullness of the senses, the numbness of indifference and unprofitable occupations allow us to know but very little. And again and again swift oblivion, the embezzler of knowledge and the enemy of memory, shakes out of the mind, in the course of time, even what we knew.”
― Hilda Hilst, With My Dog Eyes

“God? A surface of ice anchored to laughter. That was God.”
― Hilda Hilst, With My Dog Eyes

“How should I kill in me the various forms of madness and be at the same time tender and lucid, creative and patient, and survive?”
― Hilda Hilst, With My Dog Eyes

“Third tale (aka short stories)—His name is Sun and Adultery. My husband’s is Elias. My children are named Enilson and Joaquim. I want them all to die. Except him. (That first one, light and bed.) I’m very sorry, my God, but there it is. Signed: Lazinha.”
― Hilda Hilst, With My Dog Eyes