Duras

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    Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    It’s afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn’t neccesarily prove that you loved him.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)

    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.
    —Marguerite Duras (b. 1914)