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Marguerite Duras

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can’t help it – can’t help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Happiness, Woman, Help

Marguerite Duras

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

Best, Way, Waste

Marguerite Duras

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 recognize

Marguerite Duras

You didn’t have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn’t exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been.

desire, the-lover

Marguerite Duras

I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight

Marguerite Duras

You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike.

loneliness, monotony, sameness, winter

Marguerite Duras

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

Marguerite Duras

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

broken-heart, lost-love

Marguerite Duras

It’s while it’s being lived that life is immortal, while it’s still alive. Immortality is not a matter of more or less time, its not really a question of immortality but of something else that remains unknown. It’s as untrue to say it’s without beginning or end as to say it begins and ends with the life of the spirit, since it partakes both of the spirit and of the pursuit of the void.

immortality, life

Marguerite Duras

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.

lonely, love, marguerite-duras, the-lover

Marguerite Duras

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

It has been my face. It’s got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It’s scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn’t collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It’s kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste.

aging, aging-gracefully