Marguerite Duras - Time Quotes

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The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.

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A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.

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A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day.... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.

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