Marguerite Duras: Citations en anglais

Marguerite Duras était écrivaine, dramaturge, scénariste et réalisatrice. Citations en anglais.
Marguerite Duras: 108 citations6 J'aime

“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.”

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Marguerite Duras

“Very early in my life it was too late.”

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Marguerite Duras livre L'Amant

Source: The Lover

“I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.”

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Marguerite Duras livre L'Amant

Source: The Lover

“Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.”

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Marguerite Duras livre La Maladie de la mort

Source: The Malady of Death

“… as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.”

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Marguerite Duras livre Blue Eyes, Black Hair

Source: Blue Eyes, Black Hair

“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.”

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Marguerite Duras livre L'Amant

Source: The Lover

“I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.”

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Marguerite Duras livre L'Amant

Source: The Lover

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

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Marguerite Duras livre Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein

Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

“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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Marguerite Duras livre L'Amant

Source: The Lover

“When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more… exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.”

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Marguerite Duras livre L'Amant

Source: The Lover

“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.”

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Marguerite Duras livre L'Amant

Source: The Lover

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

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Marguerite Duras livre Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein

Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

“The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.”

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Marguerite Duras

“I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.”

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Marguerite Duras livre Emily L.

Source: Emily L.

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

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Marguerite Duras livre L'Amant

Source: The Lover

“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.”

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Marguerite Duras livre Emily L.

Source: Emily L.

“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.”

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Marguerite Duras livre Blue Eyes, Black Hair

Source: Blue Eyes, Black Hair

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

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Marguerite Duras

Source: Summer Rain