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“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.”

Quote by Marguerite Duras

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This book is a compilation of thought-provoking essays that delve into the profound connections between humans and the environment. It examines the impact of nature on human life and the ways in which individuals interact with the natural world. 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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“There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.”

Thinking Men Should Writing Literature

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“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.”

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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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“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

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

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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

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“The middle man governs, however extreme may seem to be the men who sit on the Front Bench, in their reactionary or revolutionary opinions.”

Men May Seems Opinion Middle Fronts He Man Extremes Revolutionary Benches Reactionaries

Book:Diaries, 1924-1932

Source: Diaries, 1924-1932