Violette Leduc Quotes

5 Sourced Quotes

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

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

Violette Leduc

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

Violette Leduc

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

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. 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