The Apple in the Dark Quotes

“Com surpresa descobriu que o conhecia profundamente. Apenas superficialmente é que o desconhecia.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark

“— 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, The Apple in the Dark

“Até hoje tudo o que vira fora para não ver, tudo o que fizera fora para não fazer, tudo o que sentira fora para não sentir. Hoje, que se rebentassem seus olhos, mas eles veriam. Ele que nunca tinha encarado nada de frente.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark

“I knew that my eyes weren't reading, but I'd never let myself be convinced that I was pretending, and that I hadn't come in search of reading on an island, I was trying to ignore that God was giving me exactly what I'd ask for and that I– I was saying "no". I was pretending that I didn't notice that I'd constructed a whole hope for whatever was finally happening to me, but that there I was wearing glasses with the open book, as if I loved so much that I could only shout "no". But I also knew that if in that exact moment I didn't take up the calm thread of my previous life, then my balance would never return, and never would my things be recognized by me.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark

“The sky was there, high up. And he down below. Greater perfection could not be imagined.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark

“But now, having removed the layer of words from things, now that he’d lost the language, he was finally standing in the calm profundity of the mystery.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark

“Muchas veces nuestra libertad es tan intensa que miramos para otro lado.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark

“Mas talvez seja assim mesmo: todo homem tem que um dia descobrir a pólvora. Ou então não houve experiência. E seu fracasso? como se conciliar com o próprio fracasso? Bem, toda história de uma pessoa é a história de seu fracasso. Através do qual... Ele, aliás, não falhara totalmente.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark