Missing Person

by Patrick Modiano
France
Born on 30 Jul 1945
Writer

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In life, it's not the future that counts, it's the past.

Rue des Boutiques Obscures (Missing Person)
An impression has gone through me, like those fragments of fugitive dreams trying to get out of the dream in order to reveal it.

Rue des Boutiques Obscures (Missing Person)
I believe that we still hear on the doorways the footsteps of those who had crossed them, and, since then, have disappeared.

Rue des Boutiques Obscures (Missing Person)
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Patrick Modiano

 

On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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