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Marguerite Duras quotes: Don't be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again. Don't be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
Marguerite Duras quotes: I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate. I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Very early in my life it was too late. Very early in my life it was too late.
Marguerite Duras quotes: It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are. It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Because he doesn't know he carries within him a supreme elegance, I say it for him. Because he doesn't know he carries within him a supreme elegance, I say it for him.
Marguerite Duras quotes: I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me. I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
Marguerite Duras quotes: No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book, or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book, or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
Marguerite Duras quotes: He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds. He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.
Marguerite Duras quotes: People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society. People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself. Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.
Marguerite Duras quotes: One day,I was already old, a man came up to me in the street. One day,I was already old, a man came up to me in the street.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Finally he hears something: he thinks it is the ebb and flow of the sea, the water crashing back into the abyss of salt. Finally he hears something: he thinks it is the ebb and flow of the sea, the water crashing back into the abyss of salt.
Marguerite Duras quotes: There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature. There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.
Marguerite Duras quotes: You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die. You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Oh, I'd like to show you my gratitude, show you how ugly I am, how impossible it is to love me. I'd like to offer you that. Oh, I'd like to show you my gratitude, show you how ugly I am, how impossible it is to love me. I'd like to offer you that.
Marguerite Duras quotes: I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn't love. I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn't love.
Marguerite Duras quotes: I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.
Marguerite Duras quotes: As long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened. As long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.
Marguerite Duras quotes: My memory of men is never lit up and illuminated like my memory of women. My memory of men is never lit up and illuminated like my memory of women.
Marguerite Duras quotes: You give me a great desire to love. You give me a great desire to love.
Marguerite Duras quotes: I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them. I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.
Marguerite Duras quotes: One must talk. That's how it is. One must. One must talk. That's how it is. One must.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Banality is sometimes striking. Banality is sometimes striking.
Marguerite Duras quotes: We're in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we're in the vanguard of waiting. We're in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we're in the vanguard of waiting.
Marguerite Duras quotes: When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life. When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.
Marguerite Duras quotes: She lavishes pain with generosity. She lavishes pain with generosity.
Marguerite Duras quotes: It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
Marguerite Duras quotes: We, her children, are heroic, dersperate. We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.
Marguerite Duras quotes: When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ... exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them. When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ... exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.
Marguerite Duras quotes: All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time. All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart. Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.
Marguerite Duras quotes: I had the face of pleasure, and yet I had no knowledge of pleasure. There was no mistaking that face. I had the face of pleasure, and yet I had no knowledge of pleasure. There was no mistaking that face.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Life is only lived full-time by women with children. Life is only lived full-time by women with children.
Marguerite Duras quotes: I think about you. But I don't say it anymore. I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes. Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Yes, the heat lacerated the heart. And alone she resisted it, entire, virgin, the envy of the sea. Yes, the heat lacerated the heart. And alone she resisted it, entire, virgin, the envy of the sea.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate. - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate. - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quotes: It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood. Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic. Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened. Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.
Marguerite Duras quotes: I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin. I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.
Marguerite Duras quotes: He says he's lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she's lonely too. She doesn't say why. He says he's lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she's lonely too. She doesn't say why.
Marguerite Duras quotes: She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become. She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.
Marguerite Duras quotes: I know all one can know when one knows nothing. I know all one can know when one knows nothing.
Marguerite Duras quotes: In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
Marguerite Duras quotes: You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike. You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike.
Marguerite Duras quotes: What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more. What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more.
Marguerite Duras quotes: That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion. That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.
Marguerite Duras quotes: You are what you are and that fascinates me. You are what you are and that fascinates me.
Marguerite Duras quotes: It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
Marguerite Duras quotes: I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen. I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.
Marguerite Duras quotes: In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that? In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?
Marguerite Duras quotes: War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death. War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.
Marguerite Duras quotes: You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable. You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
Marguerite Duras quotes: The best way to fill time is to waste it. The best way to fill time is to waste it.
Marguerite Duras quotes: When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you. When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you.
Marguerite Duras quotes: a writer is a foreign country a writer is a foreign country
Marguerite Duras quotes: I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice. I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
Marguerite Duras quotes: It was the men I deceived the most I loved the most. It was the men I deceived the most I loved the most.
Marguerite Duras quotes: The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken. The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country. Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
Marguerite Duras quotes: Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
Marguerite Duras quotes: And then, one day, my love, you come out of eternity. And then, one day, my love, you come out of eternity.

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