Top 16 Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Quotes

#1. When I start a book, it's every day. There is no Saturday, no Sunday. It's every day, because if I stop one day, I'm afraid of losing the book and losing the energy.

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#2. Everything in life can be tiring and tiresome if we don't have the ability to look at it as if it's the first time we've ever done it.

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#3. That day, she became categorically certain of two things: that he annoyed her, profoundly, and, if she could, she would never leave him.

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#4. You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

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#5. What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time.

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#6. In Brussels, you are able to have a lot of appointments in a day. In Paris, you can have one, two, maybe three, but you spend all your time on the road, in the car or in the suburbs. In Brussels, everything is easy. It's not a very big city, and the people are very quiet and warm.

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#7. I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.

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#8. Your love for her belongs to you. It's yours. Even if she refuses it, she cannot change it. She isn't benefiting from it, thats all. What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time!"-Monsieur Ibrahim

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#9. Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

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#10. I am not married anymore. I hate marriage ... but it's okay now.

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#11. I really enjoy spending Sunday evenings with friends, because Sunday evenings are always frightening. You are obsessed by the fact that you are working again the next day. And sometimes you get the blues. I always decide to spend it with friends. It's very nice.

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#12. I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

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#13. Monsieur Ibrahim: To find out if a country is rich or poor, look at the bins. If there are bins and no rubbish, it's rich. If there's rubbish by the bins, it's neither rich nor poor... it's touristy. And if there's rubbish but no bins, then it's poor.

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#14. No, you're mistaken. Not 'What filthy weather' but 'It's a fine rainy day.

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#15. I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects.

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#16. I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.

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