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• He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.

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  Men, Mind, Dying

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• 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 is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.

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  Children, Drinking, Animal

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

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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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  Alcohol, Gaps, Psychological

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

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• I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.

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  Desire, Body, Want

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• 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 wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.

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  Children, Doors, Waiting

  Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.25, Pantheon

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• Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. And no visit is more essential.

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  Paris, Essentials, Crowds

  Marguerite Duras (1997). “Outside”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?

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  Love You, Feelings, Mind

  Marguerite Duras (2013). “The Ravishing of Lol Stein”, p.101, Pantheon

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• To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man -somewhere these, too, come together.

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  Love, Children, Believe

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• A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.

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  War, Women, Rain

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• 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, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight

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  Thinking, Silence, Delight

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• All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.

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  White, Bones, Purity

  Marguerite Duras (2013). “The Ravishing of Lol Stein”, p.33, Pantheon

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• Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

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  Way, Losing, Happened

  Marguerite Duras (2015). “The Malady of Death”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste.

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  Wrinkles, Skins, Substance

  Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.4, Pantheon

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• I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

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  Mother, Believe, People

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.49, Grove Press

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• a writer is a foreign country

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  Country, Foreign Countries

  Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.66, Grove Press

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• Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.

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  Years, Cities, Paris

  Marguerite Duras (1997). “Outside”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.

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  War, Including, Generalities

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

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• When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you.

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  Differences, Reaching, Marvelous

  Marguerite Duras (2015). “The Malady of Death”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I’ll never know.

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  Eye, Men, Hands

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

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• It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

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  Women, Ideas, Neglect

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

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• For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.

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  Mother, Children, Believe

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

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• I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.

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  Fear, Gun, Fire

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

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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 looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.

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  Judging, Events, Looks

  Marguerite Duras (1997). “Outside”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?

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  Silence, Growing, Reason

  Marguerite Duras (1968). “Ravishing Lol Stein”

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• In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too.

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  Ignorance, Years, World

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