Quotes from Marguerite Duras

Não havia nada a fazer aqui, os livros derretiam-se nas mãos. E as histórias caíam em pedaços sob os golpes sombrios e silenciosos dos zangões. Sim, o calor dilacerava o coração. E só lhe resistia inteiro, virgem, o desejo do mar. Sara pousou o livro nos degraus da varanda. Os outros já estavam no mar. Ou, se não estavam, iam mergulhar de um momento para o outro.

V?n chÆ°Æ¡ng, nó ??n nhÆ° cÆ¡n gió, nó tr?n tr?i, nó là má»±c vi?t, nó là Ä'i?u ???c vi?t ra, và nó trôi qua nhÆ° không có b?t k? Ä'i?u gì khác trôi qua trong ??i, không gì hÆ¡n, ngoài nó, cuá»™c s?ng.

Ludi não gosta de pescar, disse ela, mas podíamos ir os dois. Gostava mais de pescar no rio do que no mar, não sei porquê. - Eu também, mas é preciso uma licença para pescar nos rios. Eu também gosto mais dos rios. Talvez porque os rios sejam feitos para as esperas tranquilas, e o mar não.

Pero el miedo no me abandonaba. Quería matar, a mi hermano mayor, quería matarle, llegar a vencerle una vez, una sola vez y verle morir.

Ce voyage-là durait vingt-quatre jours. Les paquebots des lignes étaient déjà des villes avec des rues, des bars, des cafés, des bibliothèques, des salons, des rencontres, des amants, des mariages, des morts. Des sociétés de hasard se formaient, elles étaient obligées, on le savait, on ne l'oubliait pas, et de ce fait elles devenaient vivables, et même parfois inoubliables d'agrément.

I know it's not a question of beauty, though, but of something else, for example, yes, something else -- mind, for example. What I want to seem I do seem, beautiful too if that's what people want me to be.

She asks if she's managing to make your body less lonely. You say you can't really understand the word as applied to you. That you can't distinguish between thinking you're lonely and actually becoming lonely.

I can see it's all there. All there, but nothing yet done. I can see it in the eyes, all there already in the eyes.

Tengo quince años y medio, en ese país las estaciones no existen, vivimos en una estación única, cálida, monótona, nos hallamos en la larga zona cálida de la tierra, no hay primavera, no hay renovación

y no estaba segura, de repente, de no haberle amado con un amor que le hubiera pasado inadvertido por haberse perdido en la historia como el agua en la arena y que lo reconocía sólo ahora en este instante de la música lanzada a través del mar.

Erkek dayanamaz ac?ya, hemen al?p baÅŸka birine okutur; ac?y? ba??ndan atmas? gerekir, atadan kalma, beylik d??avurma yollar?ndan, savaÅŸa, vahÅŸete ve ç??l?klara, aç?l?p saç?lan bir söyleme gelip dayanan gayet tan?d?k yollardan, onu silkeleyip atmas? gerekir.

Caminhais em direcção da solidão. Eu, não, eu tenho os livros

Each day, following her walk, she must have felt all the more reassured: if she willed it, people scarcely saw her, she was almost invisible. She thought that she had been cast into a mold, the identity of which was extremely vague and to which a variety of names might be given, an identity whose visibility she could control.

Très vite dans la vie il a été trop tard. À dix-huit ans il était déjà trop tard.

But what is there about me I am so completely unaware of and which she summons me to know?

Sólo me soporto con ese par de zapatos y aún ahora me veo así, esos tacones altos son los primeros de mi vida, son bonitos, han eclipsado a todos los zapatos que los han precedido, los zapatos para correr y jugar, planos, de lona blanca.

Thoughts born and reborn, daily, always the same thoughts that come crowding in, come to life and breathe, in an accessible, boundless universe, out of which one thought, and only one, eventually manages at long last to make itself heard, become visible, slightly more visible than the others, pressuring Lol, somewhat more insistently than the others, to retain it.

it is in a house that one is alone. not outside it, but inside. outside, in the garden, there are birds and cats. and also, once, a squirrel, and a ferret. one isn't alone in a garden. but inside the house, one is so alone that one can lose one's bearings.

Elle qui se ne voit pas, on la voit ainsi, dans les autres.

I desperately want to partake of the world which emerges from the lips of Lol Stein, I want to be a part of this lie which she has forged. Let her bear me with her, let our affair take, from this point forth, a different course, let her consume and crush me with the rest, I shall bend to her will, let my hope be to be crushed with the rest, to be bent to her will.

Ná»—i cô Ä'Æ¡n c?a v?n chÆ°Æ¡ng là ná»—i cô Ä'Æ¡n mà n?u không có nó s? không có tác ph?m, ho?c tác ph?m s? ph?i nh? t?ng gi?t máu ?? tìm xem ph?i vi?t thêm gì. M?t máu, nó không còn ???c tác gi? công nh?n n?a.

Elle pourrait répondre qu'elle ne l'aime pas. Elle ne dit rien. Tout à coup elle sait, là, à l'instant, elle sait qu'il ne la connaît pas, qu'il ne la connaîtra jamais, qu'il n'a pas les moyens de connaître tant de perversité.

Tout à coup j'ai eu le désir de votre bouche comme si vous étiez mon premier amant.

Que je n'avais jamais vu ma mère dans le cas d'être folle. Elle l'était. De naissance. De sang. Elle n'était pas malade de sa folie, elle la vivait comme la santé.