Patrick Modiano famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Mother #Daughter #Two
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
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
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 #Giving
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
When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And thatâ€™s why you love them.
-- Patrick Modiano

#Mystery #Accepting
But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain
-- Patrick Modiano

#Rain #Men #Waiting
A man without scenery is completely disarmed.
-- Patrick Modiano

#Men #Climbing #Scenery

Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.
If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.
I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.
I believe it from the bottom of my heart, and your sons and daughters, too, can have the American dream come true.
If one day I have a daughter and my daughter wants to be a model, I would never let her! But then, if she wants to, what can I do? But definitely not until she's 18 years old. You know, every work has the bad side, and people will be mean to you, and when you're young, you don't know how to defend yourself.
Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books.
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

Patrick Modiano famous quotes

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