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You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise they're simply unbearable.

Marguerite Duras love men

Don’t be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again.

Marguerite Duras The North China Lover advice afraid fear freedom life

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 …

Marguerite Duras family humor love men women

I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies el…

Marguerite Duras The Lover beauty ugliness

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

Marguerite Duras Summer Rain language words

I feel a sadness I expected and which comes only from myself. I say I’ve always been sad. That I can see the same sadness in photos of myself when I was small. That today, recogniz…

Marguerite Duras The Lover sadness

Writing was the only thing that populated my life and made it magic.

Marguerite Duras Writing life magic populated thing writing

You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike.

Marguerite Duras The Malady of Death loneliness monotony sameness winter

I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one i…

Marguerite Duras self

You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been.

Marguerite Duras The Lover desire

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Marguerite 76.92%
Marguerite, e.g. 73.33%
Marguerite ___, F. D. R.'s secretary. 63.64%
___-Marguerite, island off Cannes. 63.64%
Like Marguerite's lover 61.54%
Jan or Marguerite 60.61%
Anne or Marguerite 58.82%
Marguerite Piazza's specialty. 57.78%
A famous Marguerite. 57.14%
Short for Marguerite. 55.56%
Marguerite Johnson's writing name 53.06%
She sang Marguerite with black braids. 52.83%
Sharon Olds or Marguerite Young 51.06%
She played Marguerite in "Camille" 50.00%
She sings Mimi, Marguerite, etc. 48.89%
Flower also called marguerite 44.44%
Nickname for Marguerite LeHand, F. D. R.'s secretary. 43.75%
Daisy also called a marguerite 43.48%
Singer of Mimi, Manon, Marguerite, etc. 43.14%
Old name of the Ile Ste. Marguerite, off Cannes. 42.62%

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Unscramble MARGUERITE 10-letter words that start with M 10-letter words that end in E 10-letter words containing AR 10-letter words containing TE 10-letter words with M and A

Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day

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N

Hint 1 meaning

The old plural of Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

NEE

Hint 3 another clue

AND STILL ___

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