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Quotes About Understanding

Understand me: I write you an onomatopoeia, convulsion of language.
~ Clarice Lispector
Sin embargo, a veces adivinaba. Eran manchas cósmicas que sustituían al entender.
~ Clarice Lispector
Quem se recusa à visão de um bicho está com medo de si próprio.
~ Clarice Lispector
And - and don't forget that the structure of the atom cannot be seen but it nonetheless known. I know about lots of things I've never seen. And so do you. You can't show proof of the truest thing of all, all you can do is believe. Weep and believe.
~ Clarice Lispector
There could only be a meeting of their mysteries if one surrendered to the other: the surrender of two unknowable worlds done with the trust with which two understandings might surrender to each other.
~ Clarice Lispector
Ouve, por eu ter mergulhado no abismo é que estou começando a amar o abismo de que sou feita.
~ Clarice Lispector
Qué soy? Soy: estar de pie ante un espanto. Soy: lo que he visto. No entiendo y temo entender, la materia del mundo me espanta, con sus planetas y sus cucarachas
~ Clarice Lispector
No one can enter another's heart.
~ Clarice Lispector
Facts are words spoken by the world.
~ Clarice Lispector
This book is like any other book. But I would be happy if it were only read by people whose souls are already formed. Those who know that the approach, of whatever it may be, happens gradually and painstakingly — even passing through the opposite of what it approaches. They who, only they, will slowly come to understand that this book takes nothing from no one. To me, for example, the character G. H. gave bit by bit a difficult joy; but it is called joy. C.
~ Clarice Lispector
Perhaps I now knew that I would never be equal to life myself, but that my life was equal to life. I would never reach my root, but my root did exist.
~ Clarice Lispector
Now I understand what a trial is. Trial: it means that life is trying me. But trial: means that I too am trying. And trying can become an ever more insatiable thirst.
~ Clarice Lispector
La verdad es un contacto interior inexplicable".
~ Clarice Lispector
Anyone who lives knows even without knowing that he or she knows. So dear reader,you know more than imagine however much you may deny it.
~ Clarice Lispector
E nunca antes eu me havia deixado levar, a menos que soubesse para o quê.
~ Clarice Lispector
Cuando se comprende a fondo el vivir, uno se pregunta: pero ¿era solo esto? Y la respuesta es: no es solo esto, es exactamente esto.
~ Clarice Lispector
Solamente otra persona que lo hubiera experimentado sabría lo que ella sentía, pues de casi todo lo que importa no se sabe hablar.
~ Clarice Lispector
Estaba viendo claramente el vacío. Y ni entendía aquello que una parte de ella entendía. ¿Qué haría de esa lucidez? Sabía también que aquella claridad suya se podía volver el infierno humano.
~ Clarice Lispector
Elk ding is een woord
~ Clarice Lispector
Above all, she went on thinking, she understands life because she is not sufficiently intelligent not to understand it.
~ Clarice Lispector
Mas tenho medo do que é novo e tenho medo de viver o que não entendo, quero sempre ter a garantia de pelo menos estar pensando que entendo, não sei me entregar à desorientação.
~ Clarice Lispector
Como posso amar a grandeza do mundo se não posso amar o tamanho da minha natureza?
~ Clarice Lispector
Who was she asking? God? She didn't think about God, God didn't think about her. God belongs to those who can manage to get hem.
~ Clarice Lispector
When living comes to pass, one wonders: but was that it? And the answer is: that is not only it, that is exactly it.
~ Clarice Lispector