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The Lover
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"The Lover" Quotes

A young French girl in 1920s Vietnam falls in love with a wealthy Chinese man in this lyrical and evocative autobiographical novel.

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Very early in my life it was too late.

Marguerite Duras

life

I'm not sure what I'm living for anymore.

Marguerite Duras

uncertainty

He loved me so much. I loved him too, but not as much as he loved me.

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love

Later, as in the weeks and months to come, I would ask myself why I had done it. I would hate myself for having done it, and then I would do it again.

Marguerite Duras

self-reflectionregret

It's after a love affair has ended that one is most likely to remember it.

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lovememory

I am incapable of making love to someone who doesn't love me.

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loveintimacy

I have no more tears. I have used them all up.

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emotion

I am still waiting for him. It's as if everything else has been suspended in time.

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waiting

The sound of the sea is the most beautiful and the most melancholy sound on earth.

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naturemelancholy

I am the shadow of my own voice.

Marguerite Duras

self-reflection