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.

Quote by Marguerite Duras

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The best way to fill time is to waste it

The best way to fill time is to waste it

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have...

It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have...

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only...

I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only...

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like...

Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like...

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace...

No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace...

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

The best way to fill time is to waste it.

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these...

To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these...

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else,...

Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else,...

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism...

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism...

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully...

In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully...

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to...

Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to...

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be...

You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be...

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a...

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a...

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the...

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the...

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't...

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't...

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the...

It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the...

There is a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing you are...

There is a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing you are...

Happiness is a journey...not a destination.

Happiness is a journey...not a destination.