Marguerite Duras Quotes

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• A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them…
• Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.
• To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble…
• It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
• It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
• In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
• For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them…
• Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of a woman for a man…
• She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him…
• I know all one can know when one knows nothing.
• Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and…
• Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes.
• Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it.…
• 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.
• War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.
• Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference…
• Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
• You are what you are and that fascinates me.
• 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 contrary,…
• The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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