Violette Leduc : (2) " I was afraid of having to present my big nose to strangers. " - 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 of weeping, my eyes open wide to the sun, to the flowers… I wanted to feel an immense grief inside me, and it came. " - Violette Leduc