Je sais que ce ne sont pas les vêtements qui font les femmes plus ou moins belles ni les soins de beauté, ni les prix des onguents, ni la rareté, le prix des atours. Je sais que le problème est ailleu...
Il faudrait prévenir les gens de ces choses-là. Leur apprendre que l’immortalité est mortelle, qu’elle peut mourir, que c’est arrivé, que cela arrive encore.
I answered that what I wanted more than anything else in the world was to write, nothing else but that, nothing. Jealous. She's jealous. No answer, just a quick glance immediately averted, a slight sh...
He says, You only came because I’m rich. I say that’s how I desire him, with his money, that when I first saw him he was already in his car, in his money, so I can’t say what I’d have done if he’d bee...
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened. Marguerite Duras, The Malady of Death
Escribiré libros. Eso es lo que vislumbro más allá del instante, en el gran desierto bajo cuyos trazos se me aparece la amplitud de mi vida.
Escribir es intentar saber qué escribiríamos si escribiésemos -sólo lo sabemos después- antes, es la cuestión más peligrosa que podemos plantearnos. Pero también es la más habitual.
Esa noche, perdida entre noches y noches, de eso estaba segura, la chiquilla la pasó en ese barcoy estuvo allí cuando se produjo el estallido de la música de Chopin bajo el cielo iluminadode brillante...
Ellas esperan. Se visten para nada. Se contemplan. En la penumbra de esas quintas que se contemplan para más tarde, creen vivir una novela, ya tienen amplios roperos llenos de vestidos con los que no...
Ecrire ce n'est pas raconter des histoires. C'est le contraire de raconter des histoires. C'est raconter tout à la fois. C'est raconter une histoire et l'absence de cette histoire. C'est raconter une...
Ce manquement des femmes à elles-mêmes par elles-mêmes opéré m’apparaissait toujours comme une erreur.
Because he doesn't know he carries within him a supreme elegance, I say it for him.
Sen bu öyküden pek hoşlanmıyorsun, dedi.-Öyküyü öğrenmem için, bu bir neden olamaz. Yine de bilmek isterim.-Yoksa o mu? Hoşuna gitmeyen kendisi mi yoksa?-Sanırım, öyle. Yani, Cebelitarık denizcilerind...
─ No le conozco a usted. Nadie puede conocerle, ponerse en su lugar, usted no tiene lugar, no sabe dónde encontrar un lugar. Por ello le quiero y usted está perdido.
بوسعي قول كل ما أريد ، لكنّي لن أجد أبدًا لماذا نكتب ، ولا كيف نكتب
You tell yourself it would be best for her to die. You tell yourself that if now, at this hour of the night, she died, it would be easier. For you, you probably mean, but you don't finish the sentence...
Years after the war, after marriages, children, divorces, books, he came to Paris with his wife. He phoned her. It's me. She recognized him at once from the voice. He said, I just wanted to hear your...
Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or he...
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.
We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.