213 Quotes by Marguerite Duras

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    My memory of men is never lit up and illuminated like my memory of women.

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    You didn’t have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn’t exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been.

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    Perhaps you’ll escape. Day and night, this obsession. It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

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    Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.

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