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Marguerite Duras [maʀgə'ʀit dy'ʀas] war eine französische Schriftstellerin, Drehbuchautorin und Filmregisseurin. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. April 1914 – 3. März 1996
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„Sehr bald in meinem Leben war es zu spät.“

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Marguerite Duras: Zitate auf Englisch

“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.”

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“Very early in my life it was too late.”

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Marguerite Duras buch The Lover

Quelle: The Lover

“I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.”

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Marguerite Duras buch The Lover

Quelle: The Lover

“Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.”

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Marguerite Duras buch The Malady of Death

Quelle: The Malady of Death

“… as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.”

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Marguerite Duras buch Blue Eyes, Black Hair

Quelle: Blue Eyes, Black Hair

“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.”

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Marguerite Duras buch The Lover

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“I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.”

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Marguerite Duras buch The Lover

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“That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.”

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Marguerite Duras buch The Ravishing of Lol Stein

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“It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.”

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Marguerite Duras buch The Lover

Quelle: The Lover

“When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more… exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.”

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Marguerite Duras buch The Lover

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“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.”

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Marguerite Duras buch The Lover

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“She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.”

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Marguerite Duras buch The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Quelle: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

“The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.”

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“I've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.”

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Marguerite Duras buch Emily L.

Quelle: Emily L.

“I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.”

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Marguerite Duras buch The Lover

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“You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.”

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Marguerite Duras buch Emily L.

Quelle: Emily L.

“She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.”

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Marguerite Duras buch Blue Eyes, Black Hair

Quelle: Blue Eyes, Black Hair

“The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.”

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Quelle: Summer Rain

“The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.”

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Quelle: Writing

“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.”

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Marguerite Duras buch The Lover

Quelle: The Lover

“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.”

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Quelle: Summer Rain

“In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?”

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Marguerite Duras buch The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Quelle: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

“He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.”

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

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The Chimneys of India Song, from Practicalities (1987, trans. 1990).

“The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.”

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