"I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged."

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Source : Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.3, Pantheon

Marguerite Duras

#Beautiful Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.”
“Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.”
“I'm so fortunate, it's ridiculous.”
“Horsepower sells motorcars and torque wins motor races.”
“A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.”
“The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.”
“The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable,”
“Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.”

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