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Gabrielle Roy was a prominent French-Canadian author born on March 22, 1909, in Quebec, and passed away on July 13, 1983. Known for her works that vividly depict the daily life and characters in Quebec, she is considered one of the representative figures in Quebec literature.

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“… car c’est souvent en errant seule dans les villes inconnues que je suis le mieux arrivée – mais à quelque chose d’autre que ce que je pensais chercher et qui fut presque toujours meilleur.”

Voyages Travelling Curiousity Voyager Travelling Alone Wonderlust

Book:La Détresse et l'Enchantement

Source: La Détresse et l'Enchantement

“Je lisais … comme toujours lorsqu’on est emporté par la magie d’une histoire bien racontée ou la simple ivresse de se reconnaître à travers des mots plus habiles que les siens.”

Reading Reading Books Authors Lecture Livres Lire Ecriture

Book:La Détresse et l'Enchantement

Source: La Détresse et l'Enchantement

“…cette volonté de partir ne me semblait pas venir de moi seule. Souvent elle me paraissait émaner de générations en arrière de moi ayant usé dans d’obscures existences injustes l’élan de leur âme et qui à travers ma vie poussaient enfin à l’accomplissement de leur libération. Serait-ce donc le vieux rêve de mon enfance, qui me tenait toujours, de venger les miens par le succès ?”

Freedom Leaving Leaving Home Partir Wonderlust Liberte

Book:La Détresse et l'Enchantement

Source: La Détresse et l'Enchantement

“Le silence nous enveloppait toujours. non pas oppressant comme lorsqu'il dit l'absence de vie, mais tout gonflé d'une révélation heureuse qui est sur le point d'être faite.”

Canadien Canadien Francais

Book:Children of My Heart

Source: Children of My Heart

“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.”

World Children Felt Eternal Weight Shoulders Vulnerability Weary New Beginnings Loaded Frail Fragility

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“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.”

Littles House Streets Wind Mountain Curiosity Ran Deserted Canals Wooden House

Author:Gabrielle Roy

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

Ideas Feelings Dream Lasts Forever

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“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.”

World Moments Time Money Red Cents Pennies Funny Life

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“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.”

Long Ends Pain Lasts Moving Used Grows Attention Poverty Sun Too Much Shrinks Unbearable Daylight Exposing Dormant Squalor

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“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.”

Feels Life Is Tragedy

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“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.”

Happens Difficult All Things Endure Witness Triumph Shrinks Deprived

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“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.”

Would Be Realizing Canada Richness Quebec Great Hope

Author:Gabrielle Roy

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

Mind Sweet Judgment Engagement Truthfulness

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“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.”

Author:Gabrielle Roy

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

Heart Insatiable

Author:Gabrielle Roy

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

Knows Art Collecting

Book:The Hidden Mountain

Source: The Hidden Mountain

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

Knows Earth Destiny Fate

Book:Enchantment and sorrow: the autobiography of Gabrielle Roy

Source: Enchantment and sorrow: the autobiography of Gabrielle Roy

About the Author

Born: March 22, 1909
Died: July 13, 1983
Known for: Author
Quotes: 17

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