Author: Marguerite Duras

Quotes

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.

- Marguerite Duras

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

- Marguerite Duras

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.

- Marguerite Duras

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

- 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.

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

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

- Marguerite Duras

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

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.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

- Marguerite Duras

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