“The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.” WholeBodyDeathUniverseGriefAliveBrotherFilledErrorsScalesImmortalityMy BrotherImmortalConcealedOutrageYounger Brother Author:Marguerite Duras
“The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.” IfsLongBodyLanguageRealizingMemoriesForsaken Book:Summer rain Source: Summer rain
“She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.” PeopleMindLooksWholeBodyMemoriesOughtKissingWildernessAbandonedSingle Word Author:Marguerite Duras
“I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for love? How could I know you fit my body like a glove? I like you. How unlikely. I like you. How slow all of a sudden. How sweet. You cannot know. You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. I have time. Please, devour me. Deform me to the point of ugliness. Why not you? Why not you in this city and in this night, so like other cities and other nights you can hardly tell the difference? I beg of you.” KnowsMadeBodyRememberNightDifferencesCitiesSweetLike YouFitPleaseWhy NotDestroyingUglinessUnlikelyGlovesRemember YouRemembers YouTailorsI Like YouDestroying Me Author:Marguerite Duras
“I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.” WantBodyDesire Author:Marguerite Duras
