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I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.
Marguerite Duras
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Marguerite Duras
Age: 81 †
Born: 1914
Born: April 4
Died: 1996
Died: March 3
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Gia Định Province
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Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu
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Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.
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I seldom read on beaches or in gardens. You can't read by two lights at once, the light of day and the light of the book. You should read by electric light, the room in shadow, and only the page lit up.
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You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.
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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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