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Clarice Lispector

  • “Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.”

  • “Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful — for I even used words without really knowing what they meant.”

    • Clarice Lispector,
    • "Flying the Flag," Selected Cronicas ()

Clarice Lispector, Brazilian writer, journalist

(1929 - 1977)