Marguerite Duras Quotes | Beyond Motive

Marguerite Duras was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker whose work profoundly influenced 20th-century literature and cinema. Her introspective and often experimental style delved into themes of love, isolation, and memory. Duras' ability to confront difficult emotions with honesty and vulnerability in her writing continues to inspire readers to reflect on their own lives and relationships. Her legacy is a reminder that through storytelling, we can confront and understand our deepest human experiences.

"I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met."

Family, Mother, People, Madness, Mothers

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

Man, Men

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

Happiness, Feeling, Man

"It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs."

Woman, Women, Idea, Neglect

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

Journalism, Literature, Word, Workers

"In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that."

Love, Boredom

"The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it."

Happiness, Help, Interest, Trying