Patrick Modiano

France
Born on 30 Jul 1945
Writer

Quotes



There is no better way to dispel the ghosts than looking directly into their eyes.
When we love someone, we have to accept their share of mystery. And that is precisely why we love.
I always believed that some places are magnets and that we are attracted to them if we walk nearby.
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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."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays