Quotes by Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras

…as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn’t happened.

Long

Lust

Memories

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?

Growing

Reason

Silence

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

Bones

Purity

White

Drinking isn’t necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can’t drink without thinking you’re killing yourself.

Drinking

Killing

Thinking

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.

Book

Ideas

Writing

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of a woman for a man who hasnt yet come to her, whom she doesnt yet know. Shes faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.

Faithful

Men

Offering

Get rid of things or you’ll spend your whole life tidying up.

Tidying Up

Whole

Whole Life

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

Dying

Men

Mind

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Desire

Heterosexuality Is

Perfect

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

Body

Desire

Want

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Achieve

Art

Beach

Beautiful

Blessing

Body

Bones

Book

Boredom

Breaths

Brother

Children

Conversation

Country

Crowds

Death

Delight

Desire

Dies

Differences

Doors

Drinking

Dying

Enough

Essentials

Example

Faithful

Fascination

Feelings

Forever

Forgotten

Garden

Get Away

Giving

Grief

Growing

Happens

Happiness

He Man

Heroic

Heterosexuality Is

Home

House

Hurt

Ideas

Imagination

Impossible

Infidelity

Injustice

Journalism

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Quotes by Marguerite Duras

Marguerite Duras

…as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn’t happened.

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?

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

Drinking isn’t necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can’t drink without thinking you’re killing yourself.

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of a woman for a man who hasnt yet come to her, whom she doesnt yet know. Shes faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.

Get rid of things or you’ll spend your whole life tidying up.

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

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

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

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