Patrick Modiano

France
Born on 30 Jul 1945
Writer

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The memory itself is full of acid, and eventually they are is more than all the cries of pain, and all the horrified faces of the past, with increasingly deaf appeals, of which we glimpse vague outlines.
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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