Patrick Modiano Quotes

• When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

  Patrick Modiano

  Mystery, Accepting, Love Someone

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• A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

  Patrick Modiano

  Men, Climbing, Scenery

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• The doctor used to tell me that every person about to die becomes a music box playing the melody that best describes his life, his character, and his hopes. For some, it's a popular waltz; for others, a march.

  Patrick Modiano

  Character, Doctors, March

  Patrick Modiano (1971). “Night rounds”

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• But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain

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  Rain, Men, Waiting

  Patrick Modiano (2014). “Dora Bruder”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• For a long time - and this particular time with greater force than usual - summer has been a season that gives me a sense of emptiness and absence, and takes me back to the past.

  Patrick Modiano

  Summer, Past, Long

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• Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

  Patrick Modiano

  Nice, Cities, Ghost

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• My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.

  Patrick Modiano

  Years, Differences, Wife

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• On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.

  Patrick Modiano

  Mother, Daughter, Winning

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• I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.

  Patrick Modiano

  Daughter, Mother, Two

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