Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe.
Marguerite DurasWeโre in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: weโre in the vanguard of waiting.
Marguerite DurasJournalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.
Marguerite DurasYou 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 DurasThe words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.
Marguerite DurasThat she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.
Marguerite DurasIt has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste.
Marguerite Duras