Quotes by : Marguerite Duras

You ask: Why is the malady of death fatal? She answers: Because whoever has it doesn't know he's a carrier,....

It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise....

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

Don’t be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever....

I showed him the sea. It's a great luxury, being able to see it from the balcony. When cities are bombed....

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of....

I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I’ve always been sad. That I can....

I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams,....

You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station,....

I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.