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Gabrielle Roy, CC FRSC (March 22, 1909 – July 13, 1983) was a French Canadian author.

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Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once.

Alone, Difficult, Endure, Happen, Triumph, Witnesses

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgment free.

Engagement, Free, Keep, Mind, Sweet, Towards

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?

Art, Arts, Collecting, Know, Knows, Slightest

Curiosity ran unchecked through him, like the wind outside through the deserted streets, along the canal, around the little wooden houses, everywhere, as far as the mountain.

Canal, Curiosity, House, Ran, Unchecked, Wind

I felt the vulnerability, the fragility of the children of the world, and how it was, nonetheless, on their frail shoulders that we loaded the weight of our weary hopes and eternal new beginnings.

Children, Fragility, Frail, New Beginnings

Every life is a tragedy, but far more the writer's life, because the more he has to see, the more deeply he understands and feels about life, the less time he has to put it down.

Deeply, Feels, Life Is, See, Time, Tragedy

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

Canada, Distinct, Part, Realizing, Would Be

The more the heart is nourished with happiness, the more it is insatiable.

Happiness, Heart, Insatiable, Nourished

The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.

Advance, Farther, Life, Time, Tragic, Writing

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

Destiny, Earth, Fate, Knows

Ideas often last but a day; feelings, dreams almost forever.

Day, Dream, Feelings, Forever, Ideas

poverty is like a pain, dormant and unbearable as long as you don't move about too much. You grow used to it, you end up by paying no attention to it. But once you presume to bring it out in the daylight, it becomes terrifying, you see it at last in all its squalor and you shrink from exposing it to the sun.

Grow, Like, Long, Moving, Pain, Unbearable

it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.

Cent, Funny, Funny Life, Life, Money, Time