Paradoxically, the freedom of ...

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 still recognizes it.
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 Marguerite Duras

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Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
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 Marguerite Duras
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.
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For that's what a woman, a mother wants - to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.
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She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.
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What stops you killing yourself when you're intoxicated out of your mind is the thought that once you're dead you won't be able to drink any more.
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 Marguerite Duras