Quote by Clarice Lispector: “I only exist in the present. I am incapable of remembering or hoping.”

Some people are so fully absorbed in what is happening right now that the past and future feel unreal. This is not amnesia — it is a radical form of presence, where the current moment is the only thing that actually exists or has weight.

Lispector published The Passion According to G.H. in 1964, the same year Brazil's military coup installed a dictatorship that would last twenty-one years. While politics raged around her, Lispector's work turned radically inward, exploring consciousness and existence in ways that had no precedent in Brazilian literature.

Brazilian novelist and short story writer of Ukrainian-Jewish origin, widely considered the most significant Jewish writer in Brazilian history and one of the greatest twentieth-century writers in any language. Her 1964 novel The Passion According to G.H. is a landmark of Brazilian modernist fiction.