Marguerite Duras Quotes

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

I never fall in love.

My first heartbreak was extreme. I went to Australia for 10 months when I was at school and told the girl I was madly in love with not to come out to see me - and of course, when I came back, she met me at the airport to tell me she'd met someone else.

I would never knowingly go and date somebody that my friend loved.

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.

Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that.

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.

'Haywire' is full of different kinds of love songs. It's definitely country and a little something for everybody. I feel like the subject matter goes a little deeper about love and relationships.

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

Every man I knew went to bed with Gilda... and woke up with me.

Men don't deceive their wives unless they love them. When they love them most, they deceive them. It's a form of fidelity, their deceit.

London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.

As to the deceit perpetrated upon women, let it pass, for, when love is in the way, men and women as a general rule dupe each other.