The Ravishing of Lol Stein
Marguerite Duras
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“That she had so completely recovered her sanity was a source of sadness to her. One should never be cured of one's passion.”
“She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.”
“In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have you noticed that?”
“All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.”
“A prolonged silence ensues. The reason for the silence is our growing interest one for the other. No one is aware of it, no one yet; no one? am I quite sure?”
“She lavishes pain with generosity.”
“They look at each other endlessly, endlessly,”
“During this period, they say, Lol's collapse was marked by signs of suffering. But what is one to make of suffering which has no apparent cause?”
“To level the terrain, to dig down into it, to open the tombs wherein Lol is feigning death, seems to me fairer - given the necessity to fill in the missing links of Lol Stein's story - than to fabricate mountains, create obstacles, rely on chance. And, knowing this woman, I believe she would prefer that I compensate in this way for the lack of cold, hard facts about her life.”
“Thoughts born and reborn, daily, always the same thoughts that come crowding in, come to life and breathe, in an accessible, boundless universe, out of which one thought, and only one, eventually manages at long last to make itself heard, become visible, slightly more visible than the others, pressuring Lol, somewhat more insistently than the others, to retain it.”
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Book Keywords:
suffering, love
