Basilique Saint-Denis
Basilique Saint-Denis
“Si je n’y suis [en la grâce de Dieu], Dieu m’y mette; et, si j’y suis, Dieu m’y tienne! Je serais le plus dolente de monde si je savais ne pas être en la grâce de Dieu”
— Jeanne d’Arc

Today’s Feast Days

15 March

Clement Mary Hofbauer
(1751–1820)
Priest
Longinus the Centurion
(1st cent.)
Martyr
Louise de Marillac
(1591–1660)
Co-Founder, Nun, Widow
Zachary
(c. 679–752)
Pope

En acabat, descobreixes que escrius perquè et dóna la gana. Sense massa esacarafalls, continues exigent aquesta petita llibertat, desprestigiada, solitària, poc rendible. Aprens a restituir el delit que tenen els nens per a posar un nom a cada cosa, perquè t'adones que les paraules tenen més autonomia que les coses.

(In the end, you discover that you write because you want to. Without too much fuss, you continue demanding this little freedom, disparaged, lonely, unprofitable. You learn to restore the delight that children have in giving a name to everything, because you realise that words have more autonomy than things.)

Montserrat Roig (1946–1991)

Catalán writer and journalist

Digues que m’estimes encara que sigue mentira (1991)

Tell me you love me even if it’s a lie (1991)