Duras

Famous quotes containing the word duras:

    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.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)