Violette Leduc 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

• Ecstasy
• Jam
• Raspberries

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• Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.

  

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• I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

  

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• I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy.

  

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• 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
  • Ecstasy
  • Jam
  • Raspberries