213 Quotes by Marguerite Duras

We’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting.

Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up.

In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?

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.

Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.

That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.

Very early in my life it was too late.