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To write," Marguerite Duras remarked, "is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.
— Terry Tempest Williams
It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,they are better critics than authors. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.
— Marguerite Young
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul ...
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.
— Marguerite Duras
Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
— Marguerite Duras
Very early in my life it was too late.
— Marguerite Duras
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
— Marguerite Young
She would hang a sign in the restaurant window--Owt to luntsch. Bee bak in a whale. For she could not spell either.
— Marguerite Young
It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.
— Marguerite Duras
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
I acquired that drinker's face before I drank. Drink only confirmed it. The space for it existed in me.
— Marguerite Duras
In a lot of formats, you can be really experimental and see what would happen.
— Marguerite Moreau
Age means nothing. If anything I feel that I'm still a child: eternity and childhood are my ages.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Greatness is a two-faced coin - and the reverse is humility.
— Marguerite Steen
I'm doing my work in an environment that's ultimately about dollars and cents.
— Marguerite Moreau
Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
To appear rich, we become poor.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
I like working in any medium. Who's making it? How much do I like the story? Does it contribute something?
— Marguerite Moreau
...People - the ones who are left behind - desire answers. Even when we are advised from beyond the grave not to pursue them.
— Marguerite Kaye
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
— Marguerite Duras
Tough love - I'm kind of weary of that. I don't think it's so effective.
— Marguerite Moreau
One must talk. That's how it is. One must.
— Marguerite Duras
He carried emotional and mental scars as long-lasting and vivid as the whip marks on his body.
— Marguerite Labbe
Success, which hides behind time's lag.
— Marguerite De Angeli
Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love.
— Marguerite De Navarre
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ... exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.
— Marguerite Duras
The big companies are like, It's so good but we don't know how to market it.
— Marguerite Moreau
Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection ...
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Is it experimental to have been influenced by the Bible? By Saint Augustine?
— Marguerite Young
She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.
— Marguerite Duras
I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
The world is big ... May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life's full measure.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Reading Marguerite Young's 1,200-page Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was like slipping into a luxurious opium dream.
— Steven Moore
If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
— Marguerite Young
Morals are a matter of private agreement; decency is of public concern.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
I've been willing to go for years without publishing. That's been my career.
— Marguerite Young
Was your magic carpet out of commission?
— Marguerite Kaye
It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
— Marguerite Duras
There's an easygoing nature that comes with a perspective of things that aren't as important as we make them sometimes.
— Marguerite Moreau
We were taught to be good, and we were taught to be careful. But in this world, sometimes, I do not think we can be the two at once.
— Marguerite Bennett
A deal's a deal. Nothing is for nothing. Everything has its price.
— Marguerite Bennett
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— Marguerite Ashton
That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.
— Marguerite Duras
A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing!Fountain whose waters never cease to spring! — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Sometimes we have to avoid thinking about the problems life presents. Otherwise we'd suffocate. - Hiroshima Mon Amour, Marguerite Duras
— Marguerite Duras
It is not that I despise men. If I did I should have no right, and no reason, to try to govern.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
If thou followeth a wall far enough, there must be a door in it.
— Marguerite De Angeli
We have a multiverse to save.
— Claudia Gray
Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
I love vampire movies. I think they are sexy.
— Marguerite Moreau
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.
— Marguerite Young
the lover who leaves reason in control does not follow his god to the end.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
If you love life you also love the past, because it is the present as it has survived in memory. Translation by David Downie
— Marguerite Yourcenar
So you wish me to forget that you are a sheikh and a prince and a crown prince and soon to be King? That is a lot to forget.
— Marguerite Kaye
The artist by his work is known.
— Francoise-Marguerite De Sevigne
Yes, the heat lacerated the heart. And alone she resisted it, entire, virgin, the envy of the sea.
— Marguerite Duras
Superstition is but the fear of belief.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.
— Marguerite Moreau
Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
And it was at about this time that I began to feel myself divine.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
— Marguerite Duras
We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Reason dissipates the illusions of life, but does not console us for their departure.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
All happiness is a form of innocence.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.
— Marguerite Duras
Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
— Marguerite Gardiner
There is no magician like love.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.
— Marguerite De Navarre
I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.
— Marguerite Duras
High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.
— Marguerite Moreau
It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit.
— Marguerite De Angeli
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
— Marguerite De Valois
He says he's lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she's lonely too. She doesn't say why.
— Marguerite Duras
A thousand tiny imperfections can make a perfect life.
— Joey W. Hill
How you believe the world to be is how the world will be.
— Marguerite Tonery
Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.
— Marguerite Duras
Everything turns out to be valuable that one does for one's self without thought of profit.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Stormy skies, says Ernesto. He grieved for them. Summer rain. Childhood.
— Marguerite Duras
Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it.
— Marguerite Moreau
It's hard to make something collaboratively. That's the challenge. Sometimes you're successful.
— Marguerite Moreau
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
— Marguerite Duras