Quote by 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. On the…

— 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 of their…

— 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. And don't…

— 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 female alcoholic…

— Marguerite Duras

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

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

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 describe 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 changes least.…

— Marguerite Duras

“─ 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