Citation extraite du roman 'L'Amant' de Marguerite Duras (1984), œuvre autobiographique explorant les thèmes de l'amour, de la mémoire et du temps colonial en Indochine française.
"Perhaps love makes us age prematurely and become young again when youth has gone. But how can we not remember those moments? That is why I write—to transform sadness into nostalgia, solitude into memories."