Marguerite Duras

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.…

— Marguerite Duras

I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness…

— Marguerite Duras

“And modern houses don't have passages, either, for children to play and run about in, and for dogs, umbrellas, coats and satchels.…

— Marguerite Duras

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a…

— Marguerite Duras

Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I…

— Marguerite Duras

I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the…

— 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

“Très vite dans ma vie il a été trop tard.”

— 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

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

— 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

“─ No le conozco a usted. Nadie puede conocerle, ponerse en su lugar, usted no tiene lugar, no sabe dónde encontrar un…

— Marguerite Duras

She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which…

— 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

“Among all the other nights upon nights, the girl had spent that one on the boat….when it happened, the burst of Chopin….…

— 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

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

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

— Marguerite Duras

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

— 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

“Nếu người ta biết gì đó về điều mình sẽ viết, trước khi làm điều đó, trước khi viết, người ta sẽ…

— Marguerite Duras

A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day…

— Marguerite Duras

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman…

— Marguerite Duras

“I already know a thing or two. I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor…

— Marguerite Duras

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of…

— Marguerite Duras