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81 " Parfois, le cœur se serre à la pensée des choses qui auraient pu être et qui n'ont pas été. "
― Patrick Modiano
82 " Time had wiped the slate clean. "
― Patrick Modiano , L'Herbe des nuits
83 " The other day, I happened to walk through it. I had a strange sensation. Not that time had passed, but that another me, a twin, was prowling around there -- down to the smallest detail, and until the end of time -- through what I had experienced over a very short period. "
84 " Sundays, especially in late afternoon, if you are alone, open a breach in time. "
85 " There are blanks in a life, but also sometimes what they call a refrain. For periods of varying length, you don’t hear this refrain, as if you’ve forgotten it. "
― Patrick Modiano , Invisible Ink
86 " People certainly lead compartmentalized lives and their friends do not know each other. It’s unfortunate. "
― Patrick Modiano , Rue des Boutiques Obscures
87 " citise undeva ca prima intalnire intre doua persoane este ca o rana usoara pe care o simte fiecare, trezindu-se din singuratate si din amorteala.”Patrick Modiano, Orizontul, Humanitas 2015 "
― Patrick Modiano , L'Horizon
88 " He had written this book only in the hope that she might get in touch with him. Writing a book, for him, was also a way of beaming a searchlight or sending out coded signals to certain people with whom he had lost touch. It was enough to scatter their names at random through the pages and wait until they finally produced news of themselves. "
― Patrick Modiano , So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
89 " She was a pretty girl with an arid heart. Her fiancé had given her a chow-chow, but she didn’t take care of it and left it with various people, as she would later do with me. The chow-chow killed itself by leaping from a window. The dog appears in two or three photos, and I have to admit that he touches me deeply and that I feel a great kinship with him. "
― Patrick Modiano , Pedigree: A Memoir
90 " Σ' αυτή τη ζωή που καμιά φορά μας φαίνεται σαν χερσότοπος χωρίς κατευθυντήριες πινακίδες, ανάμεσα σ' όλες αυτές τις γραμμές φυγής και τους χαμένους ορίζοντες, πολύ θα θέλαμε να βρούμε σημεία αναφοράς, να καταστρώσουμε κάτι σαν κτηματολόγιο, για να μην έχουμε πια την εντύπωση ότι αρμενίζουμε ακυβέρνητοι. Οπότε, δημιουργούμε δεσμούς, προσπαθώντας να σταθεροποιήσουμε ριψοκίνδυνες γνωριμίες. "
91 " One has to be aware of so-called witnesses. "
― Patrick Modiano , La Petite Bijou
92 " Depuis, le Paris où j'ai tenté de retrouver sa trace est demeuré aussi désert et silencieux que ce jour-là. Je marche à travers les rues vides. Pour moi, elles le restent, même le soir, à l'heure des embouteillages, quand les gens se pressent vers les bouches de métro. Je ne peux pas m'empêcher de penser à elle et de sentir un écho de sa présence dans certains quartiers. "
― Patrick Modiano , Dora Bruder
93 " Dicen que los lugares conservan por lo menos cierta huella de las personas que los han habitado. "
94 " Nada le perturbaba el sueño. Todavía no tenía memoria. "
― Patrick Modiano , Livret de famille
95 " No hay mejor sistema para que se desvanezcan los fantasmas que mirarles a los ojos. "
― Patrick Modiano , Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue
96 " In big cities, in the summertime, people of long since lost track of each other or who don’t even know each other meet one evening on the terrace, and lose each other again. And none of it really matters. "
97 " Và rồi cũng có nỗi sợ bồn chồn đó, thỉnh thoảng, trước viễn cảnh các vai phụ mà ta để lại sau lưng có thể tìm thấy ta mà đòi tính sổ. "
98 " Without fully realizing it, I began writing my first book. It was neither a vocation nor a particular gift that pushed me to write, but quite simply the enigma posed by a man I had no chance of finding again, and by all those questions that would never have an answer. "
― Patrick Modiano , Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas
99 " Unless the line of a life, once it has reached its term, purges itself of all its useless and decorative elements. In which case, all that remains is the essential: the blanks, the silences and the pauses. "
― Patrick Modiano , Honeymoon
100 " Khi thực sự yêu một người, thì ta cần phải chấp nhận cái phần bí ẩn của người ấy... Và chính vì thế mà ta yêu người ấy... Phải không hả, Roland? "