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From Quotes by Marguerite Duras
- 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…
- He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.
- The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.
- Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor…
- I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I…
- It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.
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