Lispector: "To think is an act. To feel is a fact."

Lispector: "Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?"

Lispector: "It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of."

Lispector: "The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices."

Lispector: "Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage."

Lispector: "My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning."

Lispector: "Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born."

Lispector: "Putting my hand in someone else’s has always been my definition of happiness. Before I fall asleep, often - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and go into the greater world - often, before I get up the courage to go into the vastness of sleep, I pretend that someone has my hand in theirs, and then I go, go to that enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even after that I don’t have courage, I dream."

Lispector: "Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?"

Lispector: "I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort."

Lispector: "There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences."

Lispector: "I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth."

Lispector: "The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much."

Lispector: "I write to save someone's life, probably my own."