Patrick Modiano - Missing Person (1978)

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We passed the Gardens and turned down Avenue de New York. There, under the embankment trees, I had the unpleasant
sensation that I was dreaming. I had already lived my life and was just a ghost hovering in the tepid air of Saturday evening. Why try to renew ties which had been broken and look for paths that had been blocked off long ago? And the plump, moustachioed little man, walking beside me, hardly seemed real.

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She committed suicide...
"Why?" "She often told me, she was frightened of getting old."

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You should never marry a lot younger than you... never.... it never works... there is not a single case of its working..

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