Marguerite Duras Quotes - Page 2

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• ...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

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  Memories, Long, Lust

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• You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.

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  Sides, Surface, Dies

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• Banality is sometimes striking.

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  Sometimes, Banality

  Marguerite Duras (2015). “Hiroshima Mon Amour”, p.93, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Lonely, Feels

  Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.37, Pantheon

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• 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 that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe.

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  Space, Shapes, Empty

  Marguerite Duras, Duras (1993). “Summer Rain”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

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  Knows

  Marguerite Duras (1986). “La douleur”, HarperCollins

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• 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 book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up.

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  Beach, Book, Garden

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• I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.

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  Today, Way, Happens

  Marguerite Duras (2013). “The Ravishing of Lol Stein”, p.94, Pantheon

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• What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.

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  Long Ago, Voice, Forever

  Marguerite Duras, Duras (1993). “Summer Rain”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

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  Hurt, Book, Writing

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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. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

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  Destiny, Men, Funny Sarcastic

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.17, Grove Press

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• I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.

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  Talking, Forgotten

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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 him.

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  Love, Men, Feelings

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.125, Grove Press

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• 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. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.

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  Love, Moving, Enough

  Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.37, Pantheon

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• Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

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  Heterosexuality Is, Perfect, Desire

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.35, Grove Press

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• The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

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  Happiness, Home, House

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.42, Grove Press

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• In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art, his land, is homosexuality.

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  Country, Art, Passion

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.35, Grove Press

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• 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 tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.

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  Children, Home, Men

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.51, Grove Press

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• We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting.

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  Waiting, Battle, Arms

  Marguerite Duras (1986). “La douleur”, HarperCollins

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• 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 to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.

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  Giving Up, Love You, Forever

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• One must talk. That's how it is. One must.

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  Women, Conversation

  Marguerite Duras (1968). “The Vice-Consul”, Hamish Hamilton

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• The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.

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  Writing, Solitude, Drained

  Marguerite Duras (1998). “Writing”, Brookline Books

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• What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more.

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  Drinking, Mind, Able

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.15, Grove Press

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• I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.

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  Passionate, Literature, Journalism

  "Practicalities (Walesa's Wife)". Book by Marguerite Duras, 1990.

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• 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 in finding out that we're alike.

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  Relationship, Men, Fascination

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.39, Grove Press

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