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Marguerite Duras was a renowned French writer born on April 4, 1914, and passed away on March 3, 1996. Her works are known for their unique narrative style and profound social insight, with notable titles including 'The Lover' and 'The River'.

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Famous Marguerite Duras Quotes

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

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Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.”

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Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesnt desire the man offering himself to her. Its the desire of a woman for a man who hasnt yet come to her, whom she doesnt yet know. Shes faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.”

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Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“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.”

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Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.”

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Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”

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Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”

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Author:Marguerite Duras

About the Author

Born: April 4, 1914
Died: March 3, 1996
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 132

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