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Marguerite Duras Quotes

We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting Picture Quote #1

I’ve forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I’ve forgotten them, and now I’m talking to you without them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love Picture Quote #1

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome Picture Quote #1

I’ve known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you’re more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged Picture Quote #1

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are Picture Quote #1

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Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn’t understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her Picture Quote #1

When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

I know it’s not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don’t know where. I only know it isn’t where women think Picture Quote #1

He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why Picture Quote #1

Words don’t change their shape, they change their meaning, their function... They don’t have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don’t know, that you’ve never read or heard... you’ve never seen their shape, but you feel... you suspect... they correspond to... an empty space inside you... or in the universe Picture Quote #1

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Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart Picture Quote #1

He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds Picture Quote #1

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We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting (Marguerite Duras Quotes) I’ve forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I’ve forgotten them, and now I’m talking to you without them (Marguerite Duras Quotes) 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 Quotes) What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words (Marguerite Duras Quotes) 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 (Marguerite Duras Quotes) 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 Quotes) I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome (Marguerite Duras Quotes) I’ve known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you’re more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged (Marguerite Duras Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn’t understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her (Marguerite Duras Quotes) When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you (Marguerite Duras Quotes) 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? (Marguerite Duras Quotes) I know it’s not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don’t know where. I only know it isn’t where women think (Marguerite Duras Quotes) He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Words don’t change their shape, they change their meaning, their function... They don’t have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don’t know, that you’ve never read or heard... you’ve never seen their shape, but you feel... you suspect... they correspond to... an empty space inside you... or in the universe (Marguerite Duras Quotes) Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart (Marguerite Duras Quotes) He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds (Marguerite Duras Quotes)

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