Aware of the destructiveness of duration, knowing that the intensity of the present moment can only be preserved through seperation, as a memory.

Lol V. Stein by M. Duras

In hardly any novel by Duras do we see so clearly that what is important is not a lasting way of life but only the moment of coming to life, through the realization of the self, the end of passive waiting -Renate Gunther.

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