Quotes About Duras

After Duras wrote Lol Stein, she made a curious remark - she said that she gave herself permission to speak 'in a sense totally alien to women'. I know what she means. It is so hard to claim our desires and so much more relaxing to mock them.

All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.

I had the face of pleasure, and yet I had no knowledge of pleasure. There was no mistaking that face.

Death came before the end of his story. When he was still alive it had already happened.

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.