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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.
Marguerite Duras
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Marguerite Duras
Age: 81 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 4
Died: 1996
Died: March 3
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Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu
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We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.
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One must talk. That's how it is. One must.
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