"Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who……" — Marguerite Duras
"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 who hasnt yet come to her, whom she doesnt yet know. Shes faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him."
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Marguerite Duras
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75 Quotes by Marguerite Duras
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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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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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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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