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Blue Eyes, Black Hair

Name: Blue Eyes, Black Hair
Author: Marguerite Duras

Marguerite DurasOriginal title Les Yeux bleus cheveux noirs (French, 1986)

Blue Eyes, Black Hair is a 1986 novel by the French writer Marguerite Duras. It tells the story of a couple who meet by chance in a small vacation town. The man is homosexual and has recently fallen in love with a man with blue eyes and black hair. After meeting the woman at a cafe, he pays the woman to come to his room so that he can look at her, presumably in order to learn something about women or love.

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

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“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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“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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