Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist and experimental filmmaker. She is best known for writing the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, which earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards...
men mind dying
He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.
children life-is
Life is only lived full-time by women with children.
memories long lust
...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.
giving-up love-you forever
Fidelity, enforced and unto death, is the price you pay for the kind of love you never want to give up, for someone you want to hold forever, tighter and tighter, whether he's close or far away, someone who becomes dearer to you the more you've sacrificed for his sake.
night men alcohol
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
love men he-man
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
way losing happened
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.
madness knows
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.
heterosexuality-is perfect desire
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
drinking thinking killing
Drinking isn't necessarily the same as wanting to die. But you can't drink without thinking you're killing yourself.
paris crowds essentials
Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. And no visit is more essential.
relationship men fascination
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.
men impossible affair
In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur.
views injustice social
I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.