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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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Gia Định Province
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Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu
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One must talk. That's how it is. One must.
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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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War is a generality, so are the inevitabilities of war, including death.
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Very early in my life it was too late.
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A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense its existence in a moment of distraction from the literal reading, the way you see childhood through a child. It would take forever to tell what you see, and it would be pointless.
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I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.
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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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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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