Violette Leduc quotes
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“There's no sustenance in the past.”
-- Violette LeducSource : Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”
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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 LeducSource : Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”
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“To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.”
-- Violette LeducSource : Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”
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“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.”
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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 LeducSource : Violette Leduc (1966). “The Woman with the Little Fox: Three Novellas”
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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.”
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“I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.”
-- Violette LeducSource : Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”
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Source : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.
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Source : 'Listener' 6 June 1963
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“What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.”
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“The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down.”
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