I have never waited for anything the way I’ve waited for today, when nothing will happen. — Marguerite Duras
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. — Marguerite Duras
I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love. — Marguerite Duras
The house a woman creates is a utopia. She can’t help it – can’t help trying to interest — Marguerite Duras
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day. — Marguerite Duras
Heteros*xuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire. — Marguerite Duras
I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them — Marguerite Duras
In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that. — Marguerite Duras
It’s afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn’t necessarily prove that you loved him. — Marguerite Duras
It’s only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs. — Marguerite Duras