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The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.

Marguerite Duras
Happiness, Home, House
Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.42, Grove Press

The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because the he becomes one of the children.

Marguerite Duras
Children, Home, Men
Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.51, Grove Press

A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them from the longing for adventure and escape they've had since time began.

Marguerite Duras
Time, Children, Home
Marguerite Duras (1993). “Practicalities”, p.42, Grove Press

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