213 Quotes by Marguerite Duras

Aucun couple, même le meilleur, ne peut encourager à l'amour, ce n'est pas vrai.

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.

و إنّنا لوحيدون في وحدتنا الخاصة نفسها ، هذه التي تظلّ لا قِبَل لنا بها ، دومًا خطرة. أجل ، إنّ ثمّة ثمنًا نؤدّيه لأنّنا جرُؤنا على الخروج و الكتابة

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

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.

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

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 childish idea.

During this period, they say, Lol's collapse was marked by signs of suffering. But what is one to make of suffering which has no apparent cause?

الشك هو أن تكتب ، وإذًا فهو الكاتب نفسه. ومع الكاتب الجميع يكتب ، ولقد عرفنا هذا دائمًا