In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
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… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them.… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art,… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Years after the war, after marriages, children, divorces, books, he came to Paris with his wife. He phoned her. It's me. She… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Sometimes,’ she said, ‘I think I must have invented him.’ I know all I want to about your child,’ Chauvin said harshly.… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“And modern houses don't have passages, either, for children to play and run about in, and for dogs, umbrellas, coats and satchels. And don't… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence,… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“she can remember everyone admiring a rare kind of evening they spoke of as something they ought to save from oblivion to describe to… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least.… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“─ No le conozco a usted. Nadie puede conocerle, ponerse en su lugar, usted no tiene lugar, no sabe dónde encontrar un lugar. Por… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
