“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

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French writer and film director 1914–1996

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