Marguerite Duras
Marguerite Duras was a French writer and filmmaker known for her novels, memoirs, and collaborations in cinema, most notably her novel "The Sea and the Storm".
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Trending topics shown first"You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable."
"It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him."
"Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one s…"
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1924
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