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 had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.
Marguerite DurasIn a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?
Marguerite DurasThat she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.
Marguerite DurasPerhaps someone will have seen mine, the one I’m waiting for, just as I saw him, in a ditch when his hands were making their last appeal and his eyes no longer could see. Someone who will never know what that man was to me; someone whose name I’ll never know.
Marguerite DurasWe’re in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we’re in the vanguard of waiting.
Marguerite DurasI've forgotten the words with which to tell you. I knew them once, but I've forgotten them, and now I'm talking to you without them.
Marguerite DurasSome people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens.
Marguerite DurasYou alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.
Marguerite DurasWhat she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.
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