Clarice Lispector

“It's with such profound happiness. Such a hallelujah. Hallelujah, I shout, hallelujah merging with the darkest human howl of the pain of separation but a shout of diabolic joy. Because no one can hold me back now. I can still reason - I studied mathematics, which is the madness of reason - but now I...”

“Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.”

“I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?”

“The future, at least, had the advantage of not being the present, and the worse can always take a turn for the better... For, strange though it may seem, she had faith. Composed of fine organic matter, she existed. Pure and simple.”

“Meanwhile the clouds are white and the sky is all blue. Why so much God. Why not a little for men.”

“In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.”