"A house means a family house, a place……" — 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 from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began."
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75 Quotes by Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras has 75 quotes on this site.
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Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.
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To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To…
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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
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It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved…
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In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all…
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For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She…
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Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of…
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She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special…
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I know all one can know when one knows nothing.
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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who…
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Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes.
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Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you,…
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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