...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.
Marguerite DurasIt's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
Marguerite DurasThe solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.
Marguerite Duras