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To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Don't be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again.
— Marguerite Duras
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
— Marguerite Duras
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
— Marguerite Duras
Very early in my life it was too late.
— Marguerite Duras
It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.
— Marguerite Duras
Because he doesn't know he carries within him a supreme elegance, I say it for him.
— Marguerite Duras
I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.
— Marguerite Duras
As long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.
— Marguerite Duras
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
— Marguerite Duras
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
I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn't love.
— Marguerite Duras
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
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
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
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
Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.
— Marguerite Duras
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
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
Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
— Marguerite Duras
People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.
— Marguerite Duras
One day,I was already old, a man came up to me in the street.
— Marguerite Duras
My memory of men is never lit up and illuminated like my memory of women.
— Marguerite Duras
You give me a great desire to love.
— Marguerite Duras
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
One must talk. That's how it is. One must.
— Marguerite Duras
Banality is sometimes striking.
— Marguerite Duras
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
She lavishes pain with generosity.
— Marguerite Duras
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
We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.
— Marguerite Duras
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
All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.
— Marguerite Duras
Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.
— Marguerite Duras
I had the face of pleasure, and yet I had no knowledge of pleasure. There was no mistaking that face.
— Marguerite Duras
Life is only lived full-time by women with children.
— Marguerite Duras
I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.
— Marguerite Duras
You are what you are and that fascinates me.
— Marguerite Duras
Yes, the heat lacerated the heart. And alone she resisted it, entire, virgin, the envy of the sea.
— Marguerite Duras
Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate. - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras
— Marguerite Duras
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
— Marguerite Duras
Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.
— Marguerite Duras
Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.
— Marguerite Duras
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.
— Marguerite Duras
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
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
She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.
— Marguerite Duras
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women.
— Juliette Binoche
I know all one can know when one knows nothing.
— Marguerite Duras
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
— Marguerite Duras
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
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
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
And then, one day, my love, you come out of eternity.
— Marguerite Duras
Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes.
— Marguerite Duras
I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.
— Marguerite Duras
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
War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.
— Marguerite Duras
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
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
— Marguerite Duras
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
a writer is a foreign country
— Marguerite Duras
I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.
— Marguerite Duras
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
It was the men I deceived the most I loved the most.
— Marguerite Duras
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
Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
— Marguerite Duras
