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Marguerite Duras Quotes

Marguerite Duras quotes

French Novelist, Writer, Regisseur April 4, 1914 – March 3, 1996

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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. Marguerite Duras
Among all the other nights upon nights, the girl had spent that one on the boat….when it happened, the burst of Chopin…. There wasn’t a breath of wind and the music spread all over the dark boat, like a heavenly injunction whose import was unknown, like an order from God whose meaning was inscrutable. 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... Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you..."
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him. Marguerite Duras
I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for love? How could I know you fit my body like a glove? I like you. How unlikely. I like you. How slow all of a sudden. How sweet. You cannot know. You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. I have time. Please, devour me. Deform me to the point of ugliness. Why not you? Why not you in this city and in this night, so like other... Marguerite Duras
She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love. Marguerite Duras
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. Marguerite Duras
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? Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way..."
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most."
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. Marguerite Duras
You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "It was the men I deceived the most I loved the most."
It was the men I deceived the most I loved the most. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be..."
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants..."
I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love. Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras quote: "Life is only lived full-time by women with children."
Life is only lived full-time by women with children. Marguerite Duras
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. Marguerite Duras

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