Quotes by Marguerite Duras

About Marguerite Duras:

Marguerite Donnadieu is best known for writing the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, which earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
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I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.

Marguerite Duras

Pourquoi nier l’évidente nécessité de la mémoire?

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...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

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You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike.

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It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept t...

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I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.

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Que la vida es inmortal mientras se vive, mientras se está con vida. Que la inmortalidad no es una cuestión de más o menos tiempo, que no es una cuestión de inmortalidad, que es una cuestión de otra cosa que permanece ignorada. Que es tan falso ...

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He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.

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I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? I say, Books, novels. [...] She's against it, it's not worthy, it's not real work, it's nonsense. Later she said, A chi...

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When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

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The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

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Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it." ( )

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What could Maria call the time that opened ahead of her? The certainty of her hope? This rejuvenated air she was breathing? This incandescence, this bursting of a love at last without object?

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Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.

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« L'écrit ça arrive comme le vent, c'est nu, c'est de l'encre, c'est l'écrit, et ça passe comme rien d'autre ne passe dans la vie, rien de plus, sauf elle, la vie. »

Marguerite Duras

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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You ask: Why is the malady of death fatal? She answers: Because whoever has it doesn't know he's a carrier, of death. And also because he's like to die without any life to die to, and without evn knowing that's what he's doing.

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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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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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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 Bio

  • NameMarguerite Duras
  • DescriptionFrench writer and film director
  • BornApril 4, 1914
  • DiedMarch 3, 1996
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionWriter; Film Director; Screenwriter; Publisher; Novelist; Playwright; Autobiographer
  • WorksThe Lover
  • AwardsPrix Goncourt; Austrian State Prize For European Literature