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Patrick Modiano Quotes

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

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

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

Patrick Modiano
Men, Climbing, Scenery

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”

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

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

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

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

Patrick Modiano
Nice, Cities, Ghost

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

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

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

Patrick Modiano
Daughter, Mother, Two

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