Marguerite Duras

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#people

...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#waiting #memory

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. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#men #love

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. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#writers-on-writing

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. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#love #marguerite-duras #the-lover #love

Life is only lived full-time by women with children. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#life

Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#men

Pourquoi nier l’évidente nécessité de la mémoire? ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#nostalgia #love

Aucun couple, même le meilleur, ne peut encourager à l'amour, ce n'est pas vrai. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#love #relationships #love

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#fully #lived #love #such #thing