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Literature · Reflection

Marguerite Duras and the Advantage of the Written Word…

“When it’s in a book I don’t think it’ll hurt any more …exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.”

Marguerite Duras, The Lover

20 April 2022

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