Patrick Modiano Quotes

Perhaps it was one of those mild, sunny winter days when you have a feeling of holiday and eternity-the illusory feeling that the course of time is suspended, and that you need only slip through this breach to escape the trap that is closing around you.

Tudo o que vivemos no dia a dia é marcado pelas incertezas do presente.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...

No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality...

I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen to
a man: several women turned round as he passed them.