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I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.
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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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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The best way to fill time is to waste it.
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When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
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Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up.
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Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.
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We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.
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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 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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All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.
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I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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