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#1

“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#2

“It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#3

“He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

tags: lonely, love, marguerite-duras, the-lover

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#4

“I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#5

“The story of my life doesn’t exist. Does not exist. There’s never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it’s not true, there was no one.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#6

“It has been my face. It's got older still, or course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry wrinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with fine feature have done. It's kept the same contours, but its substance has been laid waste. I have a face laid waste.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

tags: aging, aging-gracefully

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#7

“I want to write. I've already told my mother: That's what I want to do-write. No answer the first time. Then she asks, Write what? I say, Books, novels. [...] She's against it, it's not worthy, it's not real work, it's nonsense. Later she said, A childish idea.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

tags: nonsense, writing

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#8

“Very early in my life it was too late. It was already too late when I was eighteen. Between eighteen and twenty-five my face took off in a new direction. I grew old at eighteen. I don't know if it's the same for everyone, I've never asked. But I believe I've heard of the way time can suddenly accelerate on people when they're going through even the most youthful and highly esteemed stages of life. My ageing was very sudden. I saw it spread over my features one by one, changing the relationship between them, making the eyes larger, the expression sadder, the mouth more final, leaving great creases in the forehead. But instead of being dismayed I watched this process with the same sort of interest I might have taken in the reading of a book.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#9

“I’ve never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#10

“I already know a thing or two. I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction or costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#11

“He calls me a whore, a slut, he says I'm his only love, and that's what he ought to say, and what you do say when you just let things says themselves, when you let the body alone, to seek and find and take what it likes, and then everything is right, and nothing's wasted, the waste is covered over and all is swept away in the torrent, in the force of desire.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#12

“We smile at each other. I ask him if it's unusual to be sad, as we are. He says it's because we've made love in the daytime, with the heat at its height. He says it's always terrible after. He smiles. Says, Whether people love one another or not, it's always terrible. Says it will pass as soon as it gets dark. I say he's wrong, it's not just because it was in the daytime, I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I've always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recognizing it as the sadness I've always had, I could almost call it by my own name, it's so like me. Today I tell him it's a comfort, this sadness, a comfort to have fallen at last into a misfortune my mother has always predicted for me when she shrieks in the desert of her life.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#13

“It's as if they were happy, and as if it came from outside themselves. And I have nothing like that.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#14

“When you’re being looked at you can’t look. To look is to feel curious, to be interested, to lower yourself. No one you look at is worth it.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover

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#15

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

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#16

“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

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#17

“Oh, I am fortune's fool!”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: classic, fate, fortune, luck

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#18

“Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.”
― Brandon Mull, Keys to the Demon Prison

tags: luck

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#19

“Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling.

"That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!”
― Rick Riordan, The House of Hades

tags: advantage, battle, blessing, destiny, fate, fortune, frank-zhang, happiness, happy, heroes-of-olympus, house-of-hades, luck, nico-di-angelo, percy-jackson, rick-riordan, surprise, tides-have-turned, turning-point

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#20

“It takes only a split second for life to go horribly wrong. To fix the mess, I need a thousand things to go right. The distance from one bit of luck to the next feels as great as the distance across oceans. But, I decide in this moment, I will bridge that distance, again and again, until I win. I will not fail.”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

tags: failure, luck

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#21

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”
― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip

tags: 100-days-drive, 100daysdrive, acceptance, accomplish, adventure, ambition, author, awakening, be-happy, be-proud, believe, bestrong, bestseller, bohemian, break-barriers, carma, chances, change, chase-dreams, cherish, coming-of-age, compassion, competition, confidence, conquer, conquer-fear, content, control-your-life, courage, crossroads, destiny, determination, dig-deep, don-t-give-up, don-t-judge, don-t-worry-be-happy, dream-big, dreamer, empower, energy, enjoy-life, explore, faith, fearless, find-yourself, follow-your-dreams, follow-your-heart, follow-your-own-path, forgive, free, freedom, fresh-start, goal-setting, goals, goals-in-life, good-soul, gratitude, happiness, heal, high-road, hope, humanity, humility, inner-beauty, inner-strength, inspiration, journey, joy, judgement, laugh, learn, liberate, liberating, life, life-lessons, light, limitless, live-life-quotes, love-thy-neighbor, love-thyself, love-yourself, luck, memoir, never-quit, no-regrets, nomad, one-life, open-road, opportunity, parenthood, perspective, positive-thinking, power, pride, push-limits, quote-of-the-day, quotes, reflections, resiliency, respect, risk-taking, road-trip, satisfaction, service-to-others, smile, soar, soul-food, spirituality, start-all-over, staystrong, strength, struggle, success, teamwork, thick-skin, think-outside-the-box, travel, truth, values, walk-a-mile, wander, wanderlust, wateroffaducksback, writer

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#22

“Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.”
― David Levien, City of the Sun

tags: depression, hopelessness, luck, pain

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#23

“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ”
― Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon USA

tags: inspirational, luck

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#24

“Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.”
― Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success

tags: golf, life, luck, make-it-happen, success, winning

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#25

“It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

tags: hard-work, life, luck

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#26

“Concentration attracts luck factor.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

tags: happiness, inspirational, luck

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#27

“There's always the same amount of good luck and bad luck in the world. If one person doesn't get the bad luck, somebody else will have to get it in their place. There's always the same amount of good and evil, too. We can't eradicate evil, we can only evict it, force it to move across town. And when evil moves, some good always goes with it. But we can never alter the ratio of good to evil. All we can do is keep things stirred up so neither good nor evil solidifies. That's when things get scary. Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.”
― Tom Robbins

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#28

“I've learned to feel good when
I feel good.
it's better to be driven around in a red porsche
than to own
one. the luck of the fool is
inviolate.”
― Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

tags: luck

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#29

“The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
― Samuel Goldwyn

tags: luck, work-ethic

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#30

“To win an argument, rely on logic. To win in life, question logic.

If you’re not willing to take some actions that don’t make sense, having a mediocre life will make perfect sense.”
― Vizi Andrei

tags: life, logic, luck, success

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