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“I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.”

Quote by Marguerite Duras

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This novel is a poignant exploration of a complex love story set against the backdrop of colonial Vietnam. It delves into the intricate relationships and societal pressures that shape the lives of its characters, offering a rich tapestry of historical and emotional depth. more

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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

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“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.”

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Author:Marguerite Duras

“A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day at war, worse than a man's working day. ... To men, women's work was like the rain-bringing clouds, or the rain itself. The task involved was carried out every day as regularly as sleep. So men were happy - men in the Middle Ages, men at the time of the Revolution, and men in 1986: everything in the garden was lovely.”

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Author:Marguerite Duras

“I don't have general views about anything, except social injustice.”

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Book:Practicalities

Source: Practicalities

“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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Author:Marguerite Duras

“Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. And no visit is more essential.”

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Book:Outside

Source: Outside

“There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.”

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Author:Marguerite Duras

“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.”

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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.”

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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

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