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Quotes About Uncertainty

Should I say that she was crazy about soldiers? Well she was. Whenever she saw one, she thought with a shiver of pleasure: is he going to kill me?
~ Clarice Lispector
Look, haven't you noticed, none of your questions have answers?
~ Clarice Lispector
é assim porque é assim. Existe no mundo outra resposta? Se alguém sabe de uma melhor, que se apresente e a diga, estou há anos esperando.
~ Clarice Lispector
How do I explain that my greatest fear is precisely in relation to ... to being?" (5)
~ Clarice Lispector
Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me?
~ Clarice Lispector
Forgive me but I'm going to keep talking about me who am unknown to myself, and as I write I'm a bit surprised because I discover I have a destiny. Who hasn't ever wondered: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?
~ Clarice Lispector
Though everything is so fragile. I feel so lost. I live off a secret that glows in luminous rays that would darken me if I didn't cover them with a heavy cloak of false certainties. May the God help me: I am without a guide and it is dark once again.
~ Clarice Lispector
Ne olduÄŸumu bilmediÄŸimden, "olmamak" gerçeÄŸe en yak?n olduÄŸum yerdi: en az?ndan madalyonun öteki yüzü kontrolümde: en az?ndan "-mamak"a sahiptim, tersime sahiptim. O zaman benim için neyin iyi olduÄŸunu bilmiyordum; benim için kötü olana da böylece ?s?nm?? oldum.
~ Clarice Lispector
So she repented. Since she wasn't quite sure for what, she repented entirely and for everything.
~ 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 se explica que o meu maior medo seja exatamente o de ir vivendo o que for sendo?
~ Clarice Lispector
Life is like that: you press a button and life lights up. Except that the girl didnt know which button to press.
~ Clarice Lispector
No usar palabras es perder la identidad? [...] Pierdo la identidad del mundo en mí y existo sin garantías. Realizo lo realizable y lo irrealizable yo lo vivo y mi significado y el del mundo y el del tuyo no es evidente.
~ Clarice Lispector
Porque es cruel saber que la vida es única y que no tenemos como garantía más que la fe en tinieblas; porque es demasiado cruel, respondo con la pureza de una alegría indomable. [...] El amor impersonal, el amor it, es alegría, incluso el amor que no sale bien, incluso el amor que termina.
~ Clarice Lispector
Pues prescidir de la esperanza significa que tengo que pasar a vivir y no solo a prometerme la vida. Y este es el mayor miedo que puedo tener.
~ Clarice Lispector
I, who manufacture the future like a diligent spider. And the best of me is when I know nothing and manufacture whatever.
~ Clarice Lispector
Fui a ver una película, no entendí nada, pero sentí todo. ¿Voy a verla de nuevo? No sé, no quiero arriesgarme, puedo de pronto entender y no sentir.
~ Clarice Lispector
Lo que yo era antes no era bueno para mí. Pero de ese no-bueno yo había organizado lo mejor: la esperanza. De mi propio mal había creado un bien futuro. El miedo ahora ¿es que mi nuevo modo carezca de sentido? Pero ¿por qué no me dejo guiar por lo que vaya ocurriendo? Tendré que correr el sagrado riesgo del azar. Y sustituiré el destino por la probabilidad.
~ Clarice Lispector
Give me your hand. Because I no longer know what I'm saying. I think I made it all up, none of this existed! But if I made up what happened to me yesterday — who can guarantee that I didn't also invent my entire life prior to yesterday?
~ Clarice Lispector
Já me parece sinceramente não pertencer mais a nenhum lugar, tenho medo disso. Mas vamos deixar o futuro ao futuro.
~ Clarice Lispector
Do I not have a plot to my life? for I am unexpectedly fragmentary.
~ Clarice Lispector
The world independed on me — that was the trust I had reached: the world independed on me, and I am not understanding whatever it is I'm saying, never! never again shall I understand anything I say.
~ Clarice Lispector
Am I one of the weak? a weak woman possessed by incessant and mad rhythm? if I were solid and strong would I even have heard the rhythm? I find no answer: I am.
~ Clarice Lispector
Só uma vez se fez uma trágica pergunta: Quem sou eu? Assustou-se tanto que parou completamente de pensar.
~ Clarice Lispector