Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist and experimental filmmaker. She is best known for writing the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, which earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards...
Marguerite Duras quotes about
time work way
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
too-late late
Very early in my life it was too late.
vacation blessing boredom
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
mom mother people
Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
sometimes
Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes.
sides surface dies
You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.
lonely feels
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.
writing solitude drained
The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.
knows
I know all one can know when one knows nothing.
years cities paris
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.
whole-life tidying-up whole
Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up.
heterosexuality-is perfect desire
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
years waiting might
She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.
madness knows
Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it. But when it goes away you can't understand it at all any longer.