Superb Sentences: Clarice Lispector

A series of beautiful phrases, sentences, and excerpts from Brazilian literature leading up to Brazil’s National Day of the Book on October 29.

From the 1977 novel “A Hora da Estrela” (“The Hour of the Star”) by Clarice Lispector (1920-1977): “A minha vida, a mais verdadeira, é irreconhecível, extremamente interior e não tem uma só palavra que a signifique.”

My life, the truest one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior,
and there is not a single word that means it.