Marguerite Duras Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.”

“Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.”

“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 best way to fill time is to waste it.”

“Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.”

“Love in France is a comedy in England a tragedy in Italy an opera seria and in Germany a melodrama.”

“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.”

“Any truth creates a scandal.”