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Quotes About Existence

Yet without the darkness," said Palin suddenly, "we would never be aware that the stars exist.
~ Margaret Weis
Why Is It That When You Wash Two Socks You Only End Up With One? Is There Life After Death? and Where Did The Other Sock Go?
~ Margaret Weis
My waking and sleeping seem mixed together. I'm walking in a dream half the time, and sleeping through reality the other half.
~ Margaret Weis
Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.
~ Margery Williams
L'hôpital existe à Hiroshima. Comment aurais-je pu éviter de le voir?
~ Marguerite Duras
The story of my life doesn't exist. Does not exist. There's never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it's not true, there was no one.
~ Marguerite Duras
You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been.
~ Marguerite Duras
In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too.
~ Marguerite Duras
La escritura: la escritura llega como el viento, está desnuda, es la tinta, es lo escrito, y pasa como nada pasa en la vida, nada, excepto eso, la vida.
~ Marguerite Duras
It's while it's being lived that life is immortal, while it's still alive. Immortality is not a matter of more or less time, its not really a question of immortality but of something else that remains unknown. It's as untrue to say it's without beginning or end as to say it begins and ends with the life of the spirit, since it partakes both of the spirit and of the pursuit of the void.
~ Marguerite Duras
You ask: Why is the malady of death fatal? She answers: Because whoever has it doesn't know he's a carrier, of death. And also because he's like to die without any life to die to, and without even knowing that's what he's doing.
~ Marguerite Duras
Nunca hay centro. Ni camino, ni línea. Hay vastos pasajes donde se insinúa que alguien hubo. No es cierto, no hubo nadie.
~ Marguerite Duras
L'écrit ça arrive comme le vent, c'est nu, c'est de l'encre, c'est l'écrit, et ça passe comme rien d'autre ne passe dans la vie, rien de plus, sauf elle, la vie. »
~ Marguerite Duras
Ng??i ta không tìm th?y ná»—i cô Ä'Æ¡n, ng??i ta t?o ra nó. Ná»—i cô Ä'Æ¡n, nó tá»± sinh ra.
~ Marguerite Duras
Con frecuencia, al terminar el trabajo, a uno le asalta el recuerdo de la más grande de las injusticias. Hablo de lo cotidiano de la vida. No es por la mañana, es al atardecer cuando eso invade las casas, nos invade a nosotros. Y si no se es así, no se es absolutamente nada. Se es: nada. Y siempre en todos los casos de todos los pueblos, se sabe.
~ Marguerite Duras
Es la mayor injusticia del tiempo, de todos los tiempos: y si uno no llora por eso una sola vez en su vida no llora por nada. Y no llorar nunca es no vivir.
~ Marguerite Duras
Y.A.: Et après la mort, qu'est-ce qui reste? M.D.: Rien. Que les vivents qui se sourient, qui se souviennent.
~ Marguerite Duras
Non ho una storia. Così come non ho una vita. La mia vita viene frantumata ogni giorno, ogni istante di ogni giorno, dal presente della vita, e non ho alcuna possibilità di vedere chiaramente quello che viene chiamato: la propria vita.
~ Marguerite Duras
Người ta không tiÌ€m th?y n?i cô Ä'Æ¡n, người ta taÌ£o ra nó. N?i cô Ä'Æ¡n, nó tự sinh ra.
~ Marguerite Duras
It's in this valor, human, absurd, that I see true grace.
~ Marguerite Duras
Death came before the end of his story. When he was still alive it had already happened.
~ Marguerite Duras
they go along together without any sign of impatience, in the way they are alone in a crowd, without happiness, it seems, without sadness, without curiosity, going along without seeming to, without meaning to just going this way rather than that, alone in the crowd, never alone even by themselves, always alone even in the crowd.
~ Marguerite Duras
V?n chương, nó ??n như 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 như không có b?t k? Ä'i?u gì khác trôi qua trong ??i, không gì hÆ¡n, ngoài nó, cuá»™c s?ng.
~ Marguerite Duras
La historia de mi vida no existe. Eso no existe. Nunca hay centro. Ni camino, ni línea. Hay bastos pasajes donde se insinúa que alguien hubo, no es cierto, no hubo nadie.
~ Marguerite Duras