Patrick Modiano

France
Born on 30 Jul 1945
Writer

He listened to me, smiling, but with that condescending and paternal solicitude for having me at his service.

Les Boulevards de Ceinture

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Les Boulevards de Ceinture

Patrick Modiano

 

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