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Marguerite Duras Quote: “What could Maria call the time that opened ahead of her? The certainty of her hope? This rejuvenated air she was breathing? This incandescence, this bursting of a love at last without object?”

101. “What could Maria call the time that opened ahead of her? The certainty of her hope? This rejuvenated air she was breathing? This incandescence, this bursting of a love at last without object?”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “I want to belong to myself, to own something, not necessarily something very wonderful, but something which is mine, a place of my own, maybe only one room, but mine. Why sometimes I even find myself dreaming of a gas stove.”

102. “I want to belong to myself, to own something, not necessarily something very wonderful, but something which is mine, a place of my own, maybe only one room, but mine. Why sometimes I even find myself dreaming of a gas stove.”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “I answered that what I wanted more than anything else in the world was to write, nothing else but that, nothing. Jealous. She’s jealous. No answer, just a quick glance immediately averted, a slight shrug, unforgettable. I’ll be the first to leave. There are still a few years to wait before she loses me, loses this one of her children. For the sons there’s nothing to fear. But this one, she knows, one day she’ll go, she’ll manage to escape.”

103. “I answered that what I wanted more than anything else in the world was to write, nothing else but that, nothing. Jealous. She’s jealous. No answer, just a quick glance immediately averted, a slight shrug, unforgettable. I’ll be the first to leave. There are still a few years to wait before she loses me, loses this one of her children. For the sons there’s nothing to fear. But this one, she knows, one day she’ll go, she’ll manage to escape.”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “When you’re being looked at you can’t look. To look is to feel curious, to be interested, to lower yourself. No one you look at is worth it.”

104. “When you’re being looked at you can’t look. To look is to feel curious, to be interested, to lower yourself. No one you look at is worth it.”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “She opens her eyes, says: Stop lying. She says she hopes she’ll never know anything, anything in the world, the way you do. She says: I don’t want to know anything the way you do, with that death-derived certainty, that hopeless monotony, the same every day of your life, every night, and that deadly routine of lovelessness.”

105. “She opens her eyes, says: Stop lying. She says she hopes she’ll never know anything, anything in the world, the way you do. She says: I don’t want to know anything the way you do, with that death-derived certainty, that hopeless monotony, the same every day of your life, every night, and that deadly routine of lovelessness.”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “And I knew it. That’s the worst part: I knew it.”

106. “And I knew it. That’s the worst part: I knew it.”

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Marguerite Duras Quote: “I don’t have general views about anything, except social injustice.”

107. “I don’t have general views about anything, except social injustice.”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “Some birds are shrieking at the tops of their voices, crazy birds.”

108. “Some birds are shrieking at the tops of their voices, crazy birds.”

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Marguerite Duras Quote: “It’s as if they were happy, and as if it came from outside themselves. And I have nothing like that.”

109. “It’s as if they were happy, and as if it came from outside themselves. And I have nothing like that.”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “We said nothing about all this outside, one of the first things we’d learned was to keep quiet about the ruling principle of our life, poverty. And then about everything else. Our first confidants, though the word seems excessive, are our lovers, the people we meet away from our various homes, first in the streets of Saigon and then on ocean liners and trains, and then all over the place.”

110. “We said nothing about all this outside, one of the first things we’d learned was to keep quiet about the ruling principle of our life, poverty. And then about everything else. Our first confidants, though the word seems excessive, are our lovers, the people we meet away from our various homes, first in the streets of Saigon and then on ocean liners and trains, and then all over the place.”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “I showed him the sea. It’s a great luxury, being able to see it from the balcony. When cities are bombed there are always ruins and corpses left. But you can drop an atomic bomb in the sea and ten minutes later it’s back as it was before. You can’t change the shape of water.”

111. “I showed him the sea. It’s a great luxury, being able to see it from the balcony. When cities are bombed there are always ruins and corpses left. But you can drop an atomic bomb in the sea and ten minutes later it’s back as it was before. You can’t change the shape of water.”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “And the girl started up as if to go and kill herself in her turn, throw herself in her turn into the sea, and afterwards she wept because she thought of the man from Cholon and suddenly she wasn’t sure she hadn’t loved him with a love she hadn’t seen because it had lost itself in the affair like water in sand and she rediscovered it only now, through this moment of music flung across the sea.”

112. “And the girl started up as if to go and kill herself in her turn, throw herself in her turn into the sea, and afterwards she wept because she thought of the man from Cholon and suddenly she wasn’t sure she hadn’t loved him with a love she hadn’t seen because it had lost itself in the affair like water in sand and she rediscovered it only now, through this moment of music flung across the sea.”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “There is something suicidal in a writer’s solitude. One is alone even in one’s own solitude. Always inconceivable. Always dangerous. Yes. The price one pays for having dared go out and scream.”

113. “There is something suicidal in a writer’s solitude. One is alone even in one’s own solitude. Always inconceivable. Always dangerous. Yes. The price one pays for having dared go out and scream.”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “Sometimes I realize that if writing isn’t, all things, all contraries confounded, a quest for vanity and void, it’s nothing. That if it’s not, each time, all things confounded into one through some inexpressible essence, then writing is nothing but advertisement.”

114. “Sometimes I realize that if writing isn’t, all things, all contraries confounded, a quest for vanity and void, it’s nothing. That if it’s not, each time, all things confounded into one through some inexpressible essence, then writing is nothing but advertisement.”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “You ask how loving can happen – the emotion of loving. She answers: Perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of the universe.”

115. “You ask how loving can happen – the emotion of loving. She answers: Perhaps a sudden lapse in the logic of the universe.”

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Marguerite Duras Quote: “And it really was unto death. It has been unto death.”

116. “And it really was unto death. It has been unto death.”

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Marguerite Duras Quote: “I think that if I had played piano professionally, I would never have written books.”

117. “I think that if I had played piano professionally, I would never have written books.”

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Marguerite Duras Quote: “During this period, they say, Lol’s collapse was marked by signs of suffering. But what is one to make of suffering which has no apparent cause?”

118. “During this period, they say, Lol’s collapse was marked by signs of suffering. But what is one to make of suffering which has no apparent cause?”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “He can only express his feelings through parody.”

119. “He can only express his feelings through parody.”

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Marguerite Duras Quote: “I tell him I like the idea of his having many women, the idea of my being one of them, indistinguishable. We look at each other. He understands what I’ve just said. Our expressions are suddenly changed, false, caught in evil and death.”

120. “I tell him I like the idea of his having many women, the idea of my being one of them, indistinguishable. We look at each other. He understands what I’ve just said. Our expressions are suddenly changed, false, caught in evil and death.”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “The person who writes books must always be enveloped by a separation from others.”

121. “The person who writes books must always be enveloped by a separation from others.”

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Marguerite Duras Quote: “And as for him, it would be enough to make her understand that this was the smile she had seen the other evening near the building site and that it hadn’t been interrupted because of any willingness on his part not to allow it to appear, but that in reality it had never ceased flowing between them, an invisible spring, from the very first.”

122. “And as for him, it would be enough to make her understand that this was the smile she had seen the other evening near the building site and that it hadn’t been interrupted because of any willingness on his part not to allow it to appear, but that in reality it had never ceased flowing between them, an invisible spring, from the very first.”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “I answer: Yes; they find me attractive in spite of everything. It’s then she says: And also because of what you are yourself.”

123. “I answer: Yes; they find me attractive in spite of everything. It’s then she says: And also because of what you are yourself.”

— Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras Quote: “Oh, one is not always alone you know. I mean so alone that one might go mad. No, there are boats and trains full of people to watch and observe and then, if one ever feels one is really going mad, there is always something to be done about it.”

124. “Oh, one is not always alone you know. I mean so alone that one might go mad. No, there are boats and trains full of people to watch and observe and then, if one ever feels one is really going mad, there is always something to be done about it.”

— Marguerite Duras

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