Marguerite Duras Zitate

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

„Sehr bald in meinem Leben war es zu spät.“

“Banality is sometimes striking.”

“All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.”

“In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too.”

“Soon you give up, don't look for her anymore, either in the town or at night or in the daytime.
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.”

“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.”

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

“Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.”

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

“Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.”

“Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn’t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.”

“I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.”