Marguerite Duras Quotes

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.
Marguerite Duras

God, Him, Destiny

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

Love, Men, Simply

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
Marguerite Duras

Men, Loved, Deceived

I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
Marguerite Duras

Mother, Lives, Mothers

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

Words, Night, Alcohol

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
Marguerite Duras

Women, Men, Country

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
Marguerite Duras

Love, Boredom, Lived

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

Happiness, Feeling, Him

The best way to fill time is to waste it.
Marguerite Duras

Time, Best, Waste

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

Word, Literature, Journalism

Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
Marguerite Duras

Impossible, Moral, Journalism

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.
Marguerite Duras

Music, Power, Woman

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
Marguerite Duras

Nature, Woman, Serious

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
Marguerite Duras

Perfect, Desire, Dangerous

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
Marguerite Duras

Women, Idea, Quite

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.
Marguerite Duras

Women, Happiness, Help

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: April 4, 1914

Died: March 3, 1996

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