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Marguerite Duras
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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.”
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Chimneys of India Song, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).
“It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.”
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Chimneys of India Song, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).
“I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Walesa's Wife, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).
“Ce qui remplit le temps c'est vraiment de le perdre.”
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wasting Time, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).
“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.”
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tourists in Paris, from Outside: Selected Writings (1984).
“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.”
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alcohol, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).
“Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.”
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: International Herald Tribune (28 March 1990).
“Writing is not speaking. It's silencing yourself. It's screaming without noise.”
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from Ecrire (1993)
“There is no vacation from love, it doesn't exist. Love, you must live it fully, with its boredom and all, there is no possible vacation from that.”
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from Les petits chevaux de Tarquinia (16 octobre 1953)