Gabrielle Roy Quotes

• The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Heart, Insatiable

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• Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Dream, Ideas, Forever

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• Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

  Gabrielle Roy

  Art, Collecting, Knows

  Gabrielle Roy (1962). “The Hidden Mountain”, McClelland and Stewart

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• The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Writing, Tragic

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• poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Pain, Moving, Long

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• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

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  Fate, Destiny, Earth

  Gabrielle Roy (1987). “Enchantment and sorrow: the autobiography of Gabrielle Roy”, Key Porter Books

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• The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

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  Sweet, Mind, Engagement

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• Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Triumph, Endure, Difficult

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• My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Would Be, Canada, Realizing

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• I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Children, New Beginnings, Fragility

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• Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Wind, House, Curiosity

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• Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Tragedy, Life Is, Feels

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• it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.

  Gabrielle Roy

  Time, Money, Funny Life

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