22 Quotes by Violette Leduc

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

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.

A caress is to a shiver as dusk is to a lightning flash.

I love it, it devours me. I adore it without illusions.

Un ser ausente de su belleza es doblemente más bello

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.

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

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

To write is to inform against others.