“Maybe women’s divinity wasn’t specific, but merely resided in the fact of their existence. Yes, yes, there was the truth: they existed more than other people, they were the symbol of the thing in the thing itself. And woman was mystery in itself, she discovered. There was in all of them a quality of raw material, something that might one day define itself but which was never realized, because its real essence was “becoming.” Wasn’t it precisely through this that the past was united with the future and with all times?” BecomingWomanProcess PhilosophyClarice LispectorNear To The Wild Heart Author:Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
“She felt like a dry branch, sticking out of the air. Brittle, covered in old bark. Maybe she was thirsty, but there was no water nearby. And above all the suffocating certainty that if a man were to embrace her at that moment she would feel not a soft sweetness in her nerves, but lime juice stinging them, her body like wood near fire, warped, crackling, dry.” LimesClarice LispectorNear To The Wild HeartSlavador Plascencia Book:Near to the Wild Heart Source: Near to the Wild Heart
“She remembered: I am the tiny wave that has no other region except the sea, I tussle with myself, I glide, I fly, laughing, giving, sleeping, but alas, always within myself, always within myself.” Near To The Wild Heart Author:Clarise Lispector
“What existed between us is not enough. I still haven't given you everything, you may come looking for me one day or I might miss you.” Near To The Wild Heart Author:Clarise Lispector
“What else was that feeling of contained force, ready to burst forth in violence, that longing to apply it with her eyes closed, all of it, with the rash confidence of a wild beast? Wasn’t it in evil alone that you could breathe fearlessly, accepting the air and your lungs? Not even pleasure would give me as much pleasure as evil, she thought surprised. She felt a perfect animal inside her, full of contradictions, of selfishness and vitality.” Near To The Wild Heart Author:Clarice Lispector