213 Quotes by Marguerite Duras

الكتاب هو المجهول ، هو الليل ، المغلق ، هو ذا

أن تكون مع الكتاب غير المكتوب بعد ، هي أن تكون في السبات الأوّل للبشرية ، هو ذا. وهو أن تكون مع الكتابة وهي بور. هي أن تحاول البقاء على قيد الحياة ، هي أن توجد في مخبأٍ في وقت الحرب ، إنّما بدون صلاةٍ ولا إله ؛ بدون أي فكرة سوى الرغبة المجنونة بأن تقتل الأمّة الألمانية إلى آخر نازي

I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight

Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes.

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.

في الحياة هناك ما لا نفلت منه ، وفيه يصبح كل شك عرضةً للشك : الزواج ، الأصدقاء ، وخاصّةً أصدقاء الأزواج

The only times she did speak was to say how impossible it was for her to express how boring and long it was, how interminable it was, to be Lol Stein. They asked her to try and pull herself together. She didn't understand why she should, she said. The difficulty she experienced in searching for a single word seemed insurmountable. She acted as though she expected nothing further from life.

لا ينبغي للنساء أن يُطلعن عُشّاقهنّ على ما يضعن مِن كتُب