He wanted to pay her; he thought women ought to be paid for keeping men from dying or going out of their minds.
Marguerite DurasShe represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
Marguerite DurasAlcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
Marguerite DurasWhen you wept it was just over yourself and not because of the marvelous impossibility of reaching her through the difference that separates you.
Marguerite Duras