I believe that always, or a... by Marguerite Duras, a French Novelist

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“I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”

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Name: Marguerite Duras

Nationality: French

Date of Birth: Apr 4, 1914

Date of Death: Mar 3, 1996

Profession: Novelist

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