Marguerite Duras Quotes & Sayings
16 most famous Marguerite Duras quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was a French novelist who passed away on 3 March, 1996.
“Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.”
“The best way to fill time is to waste 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.”
“Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.”
“It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.”
“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.”
“In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.”
“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.”
“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.”
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