Marguerite Duras: Quotes about love

Marguerite Duras was French writer and film director. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“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.”

Marguerite Duras

“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

“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

“I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

Source: The Lover

“She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.”

Marguerite Duras book Blue Eyes, Black Hair

Source: Blue Eyes, Black Hair

“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.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

Source: The Lover

“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?”

Marguerite Duras book The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

“It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.”

Marguerite Duras

The Chimneys of India Song, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).

“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

“It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.”

Marguerite Duras

The Chimneys of India Song, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).