Marguerite Duras Quotes

Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes...

I showed him the sea. It's a great luxury, being able to see it from the balcony. When cities are bo...

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory ...

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing d...

I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I’ve always been sad. That I can...

It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwi...

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Oth...

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me,...

I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in...

He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely to...

I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.

Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.

Don’t be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever...

You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the st...

You ask: Why is the malady of death fatal? She answers: Because whoever has it doesn't know he's a c...

You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Eit...

I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive cream...

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

It's while it's being lived that life is immortal, while it's still alive. Immortality is not a matt...

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest...