Quotes by : Marguerite Duras

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.

I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there,....

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

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise....

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.

Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.

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

You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either....

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