You are what you are and that fascinates me.

- Marguerite Duras

Very early in my life it was too late.

- Marguerite Duras

I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for love? How could I k…

- Marguerite Duras

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

- Marguerite Duras

When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.

- Marguerite Duras

It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.

- Marguerite Duras

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

- Marguerite Duras

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

- Marguerite Duras

Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up.

- Marguerite Duras