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“I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I’ve always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I’ve always had, I could almost call it by my own name, it’s so like me.”
Marguerite Duras“I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I’ve always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I’ve always had, I could almost call it by my own name, it’s so like me.”
Marguerite Duras, The Lover“He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.”
Marguerite Duras, The Lover“We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.”
Marguerite Gardiner“Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.”
Marguerite Gardiner“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“The best way to fill time is to waste it.”
Marguerite Duras“Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.”
Marguerite Gardiner“Love in France is a comedy in England a tragedy in Italy an opera seria and in Germany a melodrama.”
Marguerite Blessington“My father got me strong and straight and slim And I give thanks to him. My mother bore me glad and sound and sweet I kiss her feet.”
Marguerite Wilkinson“Any truth creates a scandal.”
Marguerite Yourcenar