"I have heard much of these languishing lovers, but I never yet saw one of them die for love."

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Marguerite de Navarre

#Love Quotes #Saws Quotes #Lovers Quotes

“Blessed ... is he who has it in his power to do evil, yet does it not.”
Marguerite de Navarre
“Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame ...”
Marguerite de Navarre
“Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.”
Marguerite de Navarre
“The best way to fill time is to waste it.”
Marguerite de Navarre

Source : Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.123, Grove Press
“Very early in my life it was too late.”
Marguerite de Navarre

Source : Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.4, Pantheon

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