Marguerite Duras

We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.

— Marguerite Duras

Very early in my life it was too late.

— Marguerite Duras

You are what you are and that fascinates me.

— Marguerite Duras

“Nos permitíamos el lujo de no querer comer”

— Marguerite Duras

Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes.

— Marguerite Duras

“It was the men I deceived the most I loved the most.”

— Marguerite Duras

Banality is sometimes striking.

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I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

— Marguerite Duras

I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.

— Marguerite Duras

“Yes, the heat lacerated the heart. And alone she resisted it, entire, virgin, the envy of the sea.”

— Marguerite Duras

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

— Marguerite Duras

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

— Marguerite Duras

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

— Marguerite Duras

Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up.

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...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

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All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.

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A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of…

— Marguerite Duras

She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the…

— Marguerite Duras

“Finally he hears something: he thinks it is the ebb and flow of the sea, the water crashing back into the abyss…

— Marguerite Duras

When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that…

— Marguerite Duras

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man…

— Marguerite Duras

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language…

— Marguerite Duras

You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part…

— Marguerite Duras

Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater…

— Marguerite Duras

“People were used to those slow human speeds on both land and sea, to those delays, those waitings on the wind or…

— Marguerite Duras

“I answered that what I wanted more than anything else in the world was to write, nothing else but that, nothing. Jealous.…

— Marguerite Duras

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a…

— Marguerite Duras

“Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that…

— Marguerite Duras

Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for…

— Marguerite Duras

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual.…

— Marguerite Duras

“she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to…

— Marguerite Duras

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of a woman…

— Marguerite Duras

“Hélène Lagonelle’s body is heavy, innocent still, her skin’s as soft as that of certain fruits, you almost can’t grasp her, she’s…

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I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city…

— Marguerite Duras

“I can't really remember the days. The light of the sun blurred and annihilated all color. But the nights, I remember them.…

— Marguerite Duras

“I think it was during this journey that the image became detached, removed from all the rest. It might have existed, a…

— Marguerite Duras

“People ought to be told of such things. Ought to be taught that immortality is mortal, that it can die, it's happened…

— Marguerite Duras

“Listen to me. I know something else. It will begin again. 200,000 dead and 80,000 wounded in nine seconds. Those are the…

— Marguerite Duras

“I want to take Hélène Lagonelle with me to where every evening, my eyes shut, I have imparted to me the pleasure…

— Marguerite Duras

“Sometimes,’ she said, ‘I think I must have invented him.’ I know all I want to about your child,’ Chauvin said harshly.…

— Marguerite Duras