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...
years waiting might
She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.
love men feelings
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
country writing men
Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
destiny men funny-sarcastic
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
love philosophical men
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.
waiting battle arms
We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting.
whole-life tidying-up whole
Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up.
love-you feelings mind
In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?
lonely feels
He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.
sides surface dies
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.
love moving enough
Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.
hurt book writing
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.
mom mother people
Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
achieve where-you-are get-away
It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.