20 Quotes by Antoine Laurain

And when people are unhappy, they can never bring joy to anyone else. They become nothing but tenants in their own lives, with no possibility of moving anywhere bigger or more luxurious. They resign themselves to their three-rooms-and-a-kitchen under the eaves, and then escape into the pages of luxury magazines offering sensational apartments with incredible services that they will never be able to buy. They torment themselves by imagining the life they do not have.

Do great things, Laure, be happy, or at least do your best to be. Life is fragile

He drank some more wine, feeling he was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For a man should never go through a woman's handbag. . .

He drank some more wine, feeling he was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For a man should never go through a woman's handbag-even the most remote tribe would adhere to that ancestral rule.

اگر نوجوانی تنها یک تعریف داشته باشد، همین خنده های هیستریک است!آأم دیگر هیچ وقت در زندگی اینگونه نمیخندد.در نوجوانی ، مواجهه ناگهانی با این حقیقت که دنیا و زندگی کاملا پوچ است باعث میشود بخندی؛آن قدر بخندی که نقست بالا نیاید. در حالی که در ادامه زندگی ، همین موضوع باعث میشود آه بکشی، آهی ملال آور.

There’s nothing worse than being bored with a boring man.

To quote Patrick Modiano, whom you you seem to like, in Villa Triste, ‘There are mysterious beings, always the same, who watch over us at each crossroads in our lives.’ Let’s just say that, unintentionally, I have been one of those beings.

A quote from Sacha Guitry came to mind: ‘Watching someone sleep is like reading a letter that is not addressed to you.

What I really need is a friend just like me; I’m sure I’d be my own best friend.