A review by valerijaa
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector

challenging reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A

3.75

I am obscure to myself. I let myself happen. i unfold only in the now. I am rudely alive. 

Why is it that an instant before things happen they seem to have already
happened? It's a question of time's simultaneity. That's why I ask you questions
and why there will be so many of them. Because I am a question.


Would I even recognize the truth if it revealed itself to me? 

Theres nothing more difficult than to surrender yourself to the instant. This
difficulty is human pain. 

Tonight I dreamed I was dreaming. Is it possible that death is like that? . . . the dream of a dream of a dream of a dream?