Violette Leduc Quotes

#1. Drink, my angel; everything I have inside me is yours, soak it up through the paper, through the sleeve of my coat. Suck my blood out of the hollow of my elbow where you are lying, where you are keeping warm. It's just as you please, it will always be just as you please from now on.

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#2. 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.

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#3. My mother never took my hand.

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

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#5. To write is to inform against others.

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#6. 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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#7. I was afraid of having to present my big nose to strangers.

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#8. 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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#9. At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers ... I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came.

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#10. I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.

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#11. There's no sustenance in the past.

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

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