There is no better way to dispel the ghosts than looking directly into their eyes.

Patrick Modiano in In the Café of Lost Youth (2007), translated by Chris Clarke
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Ultimately, how far away exactly does a novelist remain? At the margins of life in order to describe it, because if you are immersed in it – in the action – the image you have of it is mixed up.

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