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> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/to-have-an-inner-life-to-think-to-juggle-and-leap-to-become-a/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

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## More by Violette Leduc

> [To write is to inform against others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/to-write-is-to-inform-against-others/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

> [Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/often-we-melt-into-our-ecstasies-as-though-they-were-jams-as-though/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

> [I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/i-was-and-i-always-shall-be-hampered-by-what-i-think-other-people/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

> [At the age of five, of six, at the age of seven, I used to begin weeping sometimes without warning, simply for the sake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/at-the-age-of-five-of-six-at-the-age-of-seven-i-used-to-begin-weeping/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

> [“It’s incredible,” she sighed. My eyebrows brushed Isabelle’s eyebrows. “It’s incredible the way I’m seeing you,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/it-s-incredible-she-sighed-my-eyebrows-brushed-isabelle-s-eyebrows-it/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

> [“It is not only streams and rivers that flow: a street, with a door set back from it, can slide over into the depth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/it-is-not-only-streams-and-rivers-that-flow-a-street-with-a-door-set/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

> [To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/to-find-relief-in-what-has-been-we-must-make-ourselves-eternal/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

> [I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/i-walk-without-flinching-through-the-burning-cathedral-of-the-summer/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

> [There's no sustenance in the past.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/there-s-no-sustenance-in-the-past/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

> [“Drink, my angel; everything I have inside me is yours, soak it up through the paper, through the sleeve of my coat. Suck my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/drink-my-angel-everything-i-have-inside-me-is-yours-soak-it-up/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

> [My mother never took my hand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/my-mother-never-took-my-hand/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

> [I was afraid of having to present my big nose to strangers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/i-was-afraid-of-having-to-present-my-big-nose-to-strangers/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

> [“I give myself to adjectives body and soul, I die with pleasure for them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/i-give-myself-to-adjectives-body-and-soul-i-die-with-pleasure-for-them/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

> [“Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/often-we-melt-into-our-ecstasies-as-though-they-were-jams-as-though-2/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/violette-leduc/to-have-an-inner-life-to-think-to-juggle-and-leap-to-become-a/)

[Violette Leduc](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/violette-leduc/)

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