Places
- Obsolete French spelling of the Albanian city of Durrës
- Duras, Lot-et-Garonne, a commune of the Lot-et-Garonne département in France
- Duras, Belgium, a constituent village of the commune of Sint-Truiden in the Belgian province of Limburg
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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