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

~Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Topics: Daily Daily Life Imagination Life Really Refresh Use You Your

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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.

~Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Topics: Bathroom Because Course Dislike Find Fine Like Magnifying Mirror Mirrors Myself Photographs Seeing Shaving Surprise Take You

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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.

~Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Topics: Able Appointments Big Big City Brussels Car City Day Easy Everything Lot Maybe Paris People Quiet Road Spend Suburbs Three Time Two Very Warm You Your

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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.

~Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Topics: Ability Done Ever Everything First First Time Life Look Time Tiresome Tiring

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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.

~Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Topics: Again Always Because Blues Day Enjoy Evenings Fact Friends Frightening Get Next Obsessed Really Sometimes Spending Sunday Working You

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

~Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Topics: Am Anymore Hate Marriage Married Now Okay I Am

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I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music.

~Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Topics: Day Listening Music Reading Spend Without Writing I Can

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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.

~Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Topics: Afraid Because Book Day Energy Every Every Day Losing One Day Saturday Start Stop Sunday

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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.

~Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Topics: Century Day Know Listen Listening Music Reading Spend Without Writing I Can 19Th Century

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I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as trapped as a slice of ham in a sandwich. When I was a student in Paris, I always rented attics right at the top of buildings, and as soon as I was making enough money, I bought houses.

~Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Topics: Above Always Apartments Bought Buildings Enough Enough Money Feel Ham Houses Idea Like Living Make Making Me Money Other Paris People Right Sandwich Slice Soon Student Top Trapped

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Biography

Nationality: Belgian

Type: Dramatist

Born: March 28th, 1960

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