Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.
You are what you are and that fascinates me. - Marguerite Duras
You are what you are and that fascinates me.
- Marguerite Duras
Very early in my life it was too late. - Marguerite Duras
Very early in my life it was too late.
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
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…
When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life. - Marguerite Duras
When the past is recaptured by the imagination, breath is put back into life.
It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are. - Marguerite Duras
It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.
The best way to fill time is to waste it. - Marguerite Duras
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
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
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.
Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up. - Marguerite Duras
Get rid of things or you'll spend your whole life tidying up.
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. - Marguerite Duras
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
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