Marguerite Duras: Citations en anglais (Page 2)

“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.”

“When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.”

“What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.”

“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?”

“Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”

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

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

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

“The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.”

“a writer is a foreign country”

“Banality is sometimes striking.”

“All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.”

“In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too.”

“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.”

“No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book, or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.”

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

“Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.”

“The best way to fill time is to waste it.”

“Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.”