Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.
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Marguerite Duras
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About Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Marguerite DurasThe house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
The best way to fill time is to waste it.
It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him…