Marguerite Duras Quotes

I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight

I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I’ve always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I’ve always had, I could almost call it by my own name, it’s so like me.

You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike.

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

Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.