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On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.

I recognized one of the qualities I most admired in my wife: the beautiful big handwriting of the illiterate that she was. Darling,

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

That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.

Nice is a city of ghosts and specters, but I hope not to become one of them right away.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that's why you love them.

And then the next fifteen years fell apart: a few blurry faces, a few vague memories, ashes...

rediscover the quality he possessed in

The letters dance before my eyes. Who am I?

Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.

It's not a large crowd," he said, "and I have the feeling this wedding party is going to end in an orgy." He shrugged his shoulders.

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

In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

In those days, I thought I was happy.

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

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

On the sidewalk, dead leaves. Or burned pages from an old Gaffiot dictionary. It's the neighborhood of colleges and convents.

Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly.

As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

I always have the impression that I write the same book.

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

She had the right idea, old man, don't you think - to disappear before it gets too late?

But I am a patient man. I can wait for hours in the rain

I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family.

The more obscure and mysterious things remained, the more interested I became in them. I even looked for mystery where there was none.

One has to be aware of so-called witnesses.

One should never expect anyone to reply to one's questions.

People don't come back any more. Haven't you noticed that, Monsieur?

People certainly lead compartmentalized lives and their friends do not know each other. It's unfortunate.

One has to retire eventually, Guy.

All those journeys, those countries where they had monsoons, earthquakes, amoebas and virgin forests, had lost their charm for me.

You were right to tell me that in life it is not the future which counts, but the past.

Yes, this man had the persistence of an insect.

After all, the war doesn't alter my relationship with a blade of grass.