Quote by Marguerite Duras: “It is always the same story, the story of lost children.”

Duras expresses a recurring theme of innocence lost or individuals feeling adrift and disconnected. She implies a universal human experience of vulnerability, displacement, or the yearning for something unattainable from childhood, a poignant sense of loss.

This line echoes themes from Hiroshima mon amour (1959), a screenplay Duras wrote, which explored memory, trauma, and the impossibility of fully knowing another's pain, particularly in the aftermath of war and human suffering.

French novelist and filmmaker born in French Indochina (now Vietnam), best known for the autobiographical novel The Lover (1984), which won the Prix Goncourt. Her experimental prose and film work explored memory, desire, and the limits of language, and she was a central figure in the French New Novel movement.