Marguerite Duras: Herring

Marguerite Duras was French writer and film director. Explore interesting quotes on herring.

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“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.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

Source: The Lover

Understanding

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

Marguerite Duras book The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Sadness , Passion

“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.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

Source: The Lover

Love , Feeling

“She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.”

Marguerite Duras book The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Waiting

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

Marguerite Duras

Source: Summer Rain

Memory

“He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.”

Marguerite Duras

Women , Men

“Soon you give up, don't look for her anymore, either in the town or at night or in the daytime.
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.”

Marguerite Duras book The Malady of Death

Source: The Malady of Death

Love , Way , Night