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5 Marguerite Duras Quotes

Marguerite Duras shares consoling, plain-spoken thoughts on love, journalism and change that feel like a quiet confession.

Marguerite Duras quotes

  1. It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't neccesarily prove that you loved him.

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  2. It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

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

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  4. The best way to fill time is to waste it.

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  5. Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.

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