The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities Quotes

“Suddenly I see myself as another, as another would be seen, outside myself, available to all, available to all eyes, in circulation for cities, journeys, desire.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities: Introduction by Rachel Kushner

“I know it's not a question of beauty, though, but of something else, for example, yes, something else -- mind, for example. What I want to seem I do seem, beautiful too if that's what people want me to be.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities: Introduction by Rachel Kushner

“The space for it existed in me. I knew it the same as other people, but, strangely, in advance.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities: Introduction by Rachel Kushner

“I was afraid of myself, afraid of God.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities: Introduction by Rachel Kushner

“. . . I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities: Introduction by Rachel Kushner

“Sometimes her heart and head are invaded by upheavals, analyses, syntheses, wrenching turmoil, bright hopes, crushed expectations, precipices around which thought wanders shivering and dazed, unable to make sense of anything. (Wartime Notebooks)”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities: Introduction by Rachel Kushner