Zitate von Marguerite Duras

„Ein Buch lesen – für mich ist das das Erforschen eines Universums.“

—  Marguerite Duras

„Bücher liegen in der Luft. Der Schriftsteller ist nur die Brücke zwischen dem Stoff und der Niederschrift.“

—  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.“

—  Marguerite Duras

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

—  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.“

—  Marguerite Duras, buch The Lover

Quelle: The Lover

„Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.“

—  Marguerite Duras

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

—  Marguerite Duras, buch Blue Eyes, Black Hair

Quelle: Blue Eyes, Black Hair

„I think about you. But I don't say it anymore.“

—  Marguerite Duras

Quelle: Hiroshima Mon Amour

„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.“

—  Marguerite Duras, buch The Lover

Quelle: The Lover

„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.“

—  Marguerite Duras, buch The Lover

Quelle: The Lover

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

—  Marguerite Duras, buch The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Quelle: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

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

—  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.“

—  Marguerite Duras, buch The Lover

Quelle: 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, buch The Lover

Quelle: The Lover

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

—  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.“

—  Marguerite Duras

„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.“

—  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.“

—  Marguerite Duras, buch The Lover

Quelle: The Lover

„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.“

—  Marguerite Duras, buch Emily L.

Quelle: Emily L.