Violette Leduc Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“There's no sustenance in the past.”
-- Violette Leduc

#Past

“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

“To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.”
-- Violette Leduc

#Relief

“To write is to inform against others.”
-- Violette Leduc

#Writing

“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 #Fire #Solitude

“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

#Raspberries #Jam #Sinking

“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

“I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.”
-- Violette Leduc

#Thinking #People