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Violette Leduc (7 April 1907 – 28 May 1972) was a French author.

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There's no sustenance in the past.

Past, Sustenance

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.

Feelings, Lovelier, Our Words, Said, Talking, Wither

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

Hampered, People, Say, Think, Thinking

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.

Butterfly, Contest, Juggle, Memories, Think, Thinking

To write is to inform against others.

Against, Inform, Write, 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.

Gooseberries, Jam, Melt, Raspberries, Sinking

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

Eternal, Has Beens, Make, Relief

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.

Grass, Hiking, Journey, Music, Summer, Wild

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Lynn Coady

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Tim Duncan

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Geoffrey Wilkinson

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Edwin McCain

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Leah Chase

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