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Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up.
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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I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
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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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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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She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
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You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.
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All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.
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Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
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She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.
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There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.
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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.
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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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Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.
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In homosexual love the passion is homosexuality itself. What a homosexual loves, as if it were his lover, his country, his art, his land, is homosexuality.
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Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe.
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It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
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Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.
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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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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.
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War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.
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I know all one can know when one knows nothing.
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