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Famous Marguerite Duras Quotes
“One must talk. That's how it is. One must.”
“I have never waited for anything the way I've waited for today, when nothing will happen.”
“Very early in my life it was too late.”
“...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.”
“When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.”
“Life is only lived full-time by women with children.”
“a writer is a foreign country”
“It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.”
“Banality is sometimes striking.”
“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
“All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.”
“Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.”