More quotes by Patrick Modiano
When you are young , you neglect certain details that might become precious later.
Why, one wonders, does lightning strike in one place rather than another?
There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
Rue Froidevaux seemed to go on forever, as if the distances stretched to infinity.
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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.
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