Violette Leduc Quotes

• I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

  Violette Leduc

  Summer, Journey, Fire

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• To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind.

  Violette Leduc

  Memories, Butterfly, Thinking

  Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”

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• We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.

  Violette Leduc

  Talking, Feelings, Our Words

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• To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

  Violette Leduc

  Relief, Eternal, Has Beens

  Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”

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• There's no sustenance in the past.

  Violette Leduc

  Past, Sustenance

  Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”

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• To write is to inform against others.

  Violette Leduc

  Writing

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• Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.

  Violette Leduc

  Jam, Raspberries, Sinking

  Violette Leduc (1966). “The Woman with the Little Fox: Three Novellas”

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• I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

  Violette Leduc

  Thinking, People

  Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”

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