Marguerite Duras Quotes

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

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.

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.