Marguerite Duras - The Lover (1984)

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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.

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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

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It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.

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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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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'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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When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more... exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

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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.

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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.

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The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it.... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.

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