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“People come to Paris, to the capital, to give their lives a sense of belonging, of an almost mythical participation in society.”

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Marguerite Duras

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'. more

“A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense its existence in a moment of distraction from the literal reading, the way you see childhood through a child. It would take forever to tell what you see, and it would be pointless.”

Way Children Two Book Moments Would Be Reading Existence Forever Childhood Distraction Layers Pointless Literal Inaccessible

Author:Marguerite Duras

“Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.”

Running Ego Deny Surface Daily Life Controversy Ambivalence Beneath The Surface Personal History

Book:My Apprenticeship

Source: My Apprenticeship

“we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.”

Source: American diary, 1898

“All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.”

Force Lines Drinking Alcohol Weakening

Author:Beatrice Webb

“Harris had the egotistical dogmatism of the self-made man who had painfully educated himself without contact with superior brains.”

Men Made Self Brain Education Superiors Contact Educated Egotistical Self Made Dogmatism Self Made Man

Book:American diary, 1898

Source: American diary, 1898

“the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.”

Seems Wealth Genius Possession Inheritance

Author:Beatrice Webb

“Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?”

Littles Government Cabinets

Book:Diaries, 1924-1932

Source: Diaries, 1924-1932

“The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.”

Seems Hours Half Waste Ordinary Engaged Telephones Interruptions

Author:Beatrice Webb

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