When you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the self-centered nature of grief, suggesting that our emotions often stem from our own experiences rather than truly empathizing with others.
In this quote, Marguerite Duras highlights the complexity of emotions in relationships, particularly grief. It suggests that when we mourn or weep, it often arises from our own feelings and disappointments rather than a genuine emotional connection to the other person. The 'marvelous impossibility' indicates the deep chasm that can exist between individuals, making full emotional connection difficult, if not impossible.
In practice
In a discussion about the nature of emotional pain in relationships.
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.
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.
Perhaps someone will have seen mine, the one Iβm 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 Iβll 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?
All I wanted to do was help kids not feel alone, and stop kids from committing suicide.
We all miss you so much. It just never ends. It feels like we were all wounded in your battle, Caroline. I miss you. I love you.
It's kind of heartbreaking when I talk about it now, I still get very moved by the lack of opportunities that were available to myself and to the very few others who were Hispanic young actresses.
If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
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