David Foenkinos Quotes

• But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.

  David Foenkinos

  Years, Needs, Possibility

  David Foenkinos (2011). “Delicacy”, p.140, A&C Black

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• Life can be beautiful when you understand the inconvenience of being born.

  David Foenkinos

  Beautiful, Born, Inconvenience

  David Foenkinos (2011). “Delicacy”, p.201, A&C Black

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• Time again for the waltz of smiles. Amazing how you sometimes make resolutions, tell yourself everything will be a certain way from now on, and then all it takes is a tiny movement of the lips to shatter your confidence in a certainty that seemed eternal.

  David Foenkinos

  Movement, Way, Tiny

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• Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.

  David Foenkinos

  Heart, Dictionary

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• We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of meeting us? To think of it, it's a fact that they often seem out of breath.

  David Foenkinos

  Running, Thinking, Doe

  David Foenkinos (2011). “Delicacy”, p.141, A&C Black

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