"In heterosexual love there's no solution. Man and woman are irreconcilable, and it's the doomed attempt to do the impossible, repeated in each new affair, that lends heterosexual love its grandeur."

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Source : Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.35, Grove Press

Marguerite Duras

#Men Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Affair Quotes

“Embrace your grief. For there, your soul will grow.”
“How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith.”
“It's okay to cry. There's no reason to hold back.”
“I always knew I was a star And now, the rest of the world seems to agree with me.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There's always a joy in newness as a painter, and in sub-Saharan Africa, I encountered different realities with regard to light and how it bounces across the skin. The way that blues and purples come into play. In India and Sri Lanka, it was no different. It became a moment in which I had an opportunity to learn as a painter how to create the body in full form, and that's a very material and aesthetic thing. This is not conceptual. It's all an abstraction.”
“Humanity will continue, but in a different way. Material structures will change. From this we will have the opportunity to be more human. We are living in the most important era of the Mayan calendars and prophecies. All the prophecies of the world, all the traditions are converging now. There is no time for games. The spiritual ideal of this era is action.”
“That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.”
“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem”

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