Near to the Wild Heart

by Clarice Lispector
Brazil
10 Dec 1920 // 9 Dec 1977
Writer



Obtaining Myself (1)

Instead of obtaining myself by fleeing, I find myself forsaken, alone, tossed into a dimensionless cubicle, where light and shadow are quiet ghosts. In my interior I find the silence I seek. But in i...

I Surprise Myself (2)

When I surprise myself in the depths of the mirror I get a fright. I can hardly believe that I have limits, that I am cut out and defined. I feel scattered in the air, thinking inside other beings, l...

I Will Rise Up (3)

I will surpass myself in waves, ah, Lord, and may everything come and fall upon me, even the incomprehension of myself at certain white moments because all I have to do is comply with myself and then...


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Near to the Wild Heart

Clarice Lispector

 

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