Best Marguerite Duras Sayings
- Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be… Almost Total
- I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful… Beautiful
- a writer is a foreign country Country
- The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man… Answer
- Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want… Away Someone
- It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are. Achieve
- We, her children, are heroic, dersperate. Children
- Banality is sometimes striking. Banality
- Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. Always Remain
- Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness.… All
- All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time. All
- The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides… Alike
- When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you. Difference
- I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for… All
- A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one… Aware
- It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry… Been
- 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 finery.… Beautiful
- 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. Doesn
- Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words… Any
- Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart. Deep
- Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood. Childhood
- Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened. Happened
- 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, amazing.… Amazing
- I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love. Body
- I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the… Beach
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