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Too Much of Life Too Much of Life by Clarice Lispector
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“I humbly ask to be allowed to exist, I humbly beg for a little happiness, an act of grace, I ask to be allowed to suffer less, I ask to be less beset by painful experiences, I ask men and women to consider me a human being worthy of a little love and respect. I ask for the blessing of life.”
Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
“Meu instinto precedera a minha inteligência.”
Clarice Lispector, Todas as Crônicas
“E eu não aguento a resignação. Ah, como devoro com fome e prazer a revolta.”
Clarice Lispector, Todas as Crônicas
“Man was programmed by God to solve problems, but he has started to create them rather than solve them. The machine was programmed by man to solve the problems that he created. But the machine is actually beginning to create problems that disorient and swallow up man.”
Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
“And the darkness grows so very dark. I’m falling into a kind of painless sadness. It’s not too bad. It’s just the way it is. Tomorrow, I’ll probably feel a little happiness, no great ecstasies, just happiness, and that’s not bad either. Yes, but I’m not really enjoying this pact with the mediocrity of living.”
Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
“I went to see a movie, I didn’t understand a thing, but I felt everything. Will I go and see it again? I don’t know, this time I might not be in a state of well-being, I don’t want to risk it, I might suddenly understand and not feel.”
Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
“A CHALLENGE FOR PSYCHOANALYSTS: I dreamed that a fish took off its clothes and was left naked.”
Clarice Lispector, Too Much of Life
“Deus, o que nos prometeis em troca de morrer? Pois o céu e o inferno nós já os conhecemos - cada um de nós em segredo quase de sonho já viveu um pouco o próprio apocalipse. E a própria morte.”
Clarice Lispector, Todas as Crônicas
tags: morte
“Estou caindo numa tristeza sem dor. Não é mau. Faz parte. Amanhã provavelmente terei alguma alegria, também sem grandes êxtases, só alegria, e isto também não é mau. É, mas não estou gostando muito deste pacto com a mediocridade de viver.”
Clarice Lispector, Todas as Crônicas
“Voltando ao meu cansaço, estou cansada de tanta gente me achar simpática. Quero os que me acham antipática porque com esses eu tenho afinidade: tenho profunda antipatia por mim.”
Clarice Lispector, Todas as Crônicas
“E a morte, que era para ser uma única boa vez, não: está sendo sem parar.”
Clarice Lispector, Todas as Crônicas
“[...] fugidia que nem a mais mimética das enguias.”
Clarice Lispector, Todas as Crônicas
“E tudo é muito para um coração de repente enfraquecido que só suporta o menos, só pode querer o pouco e aos poucos.”
Clarice Lispector, Todas as Crônicas
tags: heart, love