Marguerite Duras: Citations en anglais

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

“The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.”

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Source: Writing

“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.”

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Marguerite Duras livre L'Amant

Source: The Lover

“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.”

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Source: Summer Rain

“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?”

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Marguerite Duras livre Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein

Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

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

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

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

“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.”

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“Banality is sometimes striking.”

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Source: Hiroshima Mon Amour

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

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Marguerite Duras livre Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein

Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

“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.”

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Marguerite Duras livre Blue Eyes, Black Hair

Source: Blue Eyes, Black Hair

“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.”

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Marguerite Duras livre La Maladie de la mort

Source: The Malady of Death

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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Tourists in Paris, from Outside: Selected Writings (1984).

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

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Ce qui remplit le temps c'est vraiment de le perdre.
Wasting Time, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).

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

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International Herald Tribune (28 March 1990).