I'm still there, watching those possessed children, as far away from the mystery now as I was then. I've never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.
Interpretation
The quote reflects a sense of longing and introspection about love, creativity, and the passage of time.
In this quote, Marguerite Duras expresses a poignant realization of her life's journey, feeling detached from the experiences of love and creativity that she believed she had engaged in. She depicts a sense of waiting and unfulfilled potential, suggesting that despite her efforts, she has remained an observer rather than a participant in the mysteries of life, love, and creation.
In practice
This quote could be used in a reflective discussion about unfulfilled desires in a literary circle.
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.
Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I’ll never know.
Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.
A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?
A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.
If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights.
People who can be very good can be very bad too.
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion.
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.
If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.
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