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The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.
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The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home — will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.
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I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
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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.
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All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.
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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.
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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?
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The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write. When it loses its blood, its author stops recognizing it. And first and foremost it must be never be dictated to a secretary, however capable she may be, nor ever given to a publisher to read at that stage.
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The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
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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.
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I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.
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That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.
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Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.
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Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.
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What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more.
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People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.
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Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
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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.
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Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.
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Marguerite Duras
Born:
April 4, 1914
Died:
March 3, 1996
(aged 81)
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Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist and experimental filmmaker.
Known for:
The Lover (1984)
The Sea Wall (1950)
The Ravishing of Lol Stein (1964)
Moderato Cantabile (1958)
The Malady of Death (1982)
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