Top 8 Quotes by Violette Leduc

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.

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”

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

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

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”

There's no sustenance in the past.

Violette Leduc

Past, Sustenance

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

To write is to inform against others.

Violette Leduc

Writing

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”