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Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Geburtstag:28. März 1960
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt ist ein französischer und belgischer Romancier, Dramatiker und Filmregisseur.
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„Was du verschenkst, Momo, bleibt immer dein Eigen; was du behältst, ist für immer verloren.“
— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
aus: Monsieur Ibrahim und die Blumen des Koran. Erzählung, aus dem Französischen von Annette und Paul Bäcker. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 4. Auflage: Mai 2009, S. 57
„What you give, Momo, is yours forever. What you keep is lost for all time.“
— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Monsieur Ibrahim and The Flowers of the Qur'an
„Women are pleasing because they come to us wrapped in the catkin of an enigma and they cease to please when they lose their intrigue. Do women believe that men are only interested in what's between their legs? That would be an error.:men are more attracted by a woman's romantic side than by her sexuality.“
— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The Most Beautiful Book in the World: Eight Novellas
„Urmându-ţi aşadar sfatul, m-am străduit
să-l pun în aplicare. Contemplând lumina, culorile, copacii, păsările, animalele. Simţeam cum aerul îmi pătrunde în nări făcându-mă să respir. Vocile de pe culoar veneau spre mine ca din bolta unei catedrale. Iar eu eram viu. Fremătam de o bucurie necuprinsă şi pură. Aceea de a exista. O bucurie care mă fermeca.“
— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Oscar et la dame rose
„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.“
— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Monsieur Ibrahim and The Flowers of the Qur'an
„She had pronounced the words “New Books” with caution and regret, articulating them reluctantly, as if they were vulgar, even obscene words. As I listened to her, I realised that that it was indeed a commercial term, used to designate an item in fashion, but inappropriate to define a literary work; I also realised that to her eyes I was nothing but an author of ‘New Books’ a supplier in a way. “But novels by Daudet or Maupassant - weren’t they ‘New Books’ when they came out?” I asked.
“Time has given them their place”, she replied, as though I had just said something insolent.“
— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
La rêveuse d'Ostende
„Momo: [reading Ibrahim's will] This is my will and testament. I, Ibrahim Demirdji, hereby leave all my goods to Moses Schmitt, my son Momo because he chose me as his father and because I've given him everything I've learned in this life. Now you too will know what's in my Koran, Momo. It's all there is to know.“
— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran & Oscar and the Lady in Pink
„La început ai tendinţa să-l
supraestimezi crezând că viaţa pe care ai
primit-o este veşnică. Apoi, dimpotrivă, îl
subestimezi, găsind că-i o porcărie, scurtă de
nu-nţelegi nimic din ea şi pe care uneori ţi-ar
veni s-o arunci de să nu se vadă. Abia către
sfârşit pricepi că nu-i vorba de nici un dar, ci de
un simplu împrumut. Pe care trebuie să încerci
să-l meriţi. La cei o sută de ani ai mei pot
spune că ştiu despre ce vorbesc. Cu cât
îmbătrâneşti mai mult, cu atâta se cade să ai
bunul gust de a aprecia viaţa. Trebuie să devii
rafinat, artist. La douăzeci de ani, orice cretin
ştie să se bucure de viaţă, dar la o sută, când
nici măcar să te mişti nu mai eşti în stare,
trebuie să ştii să-ţi pui inteligenţa la lucru.“
— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
Oscar et la dame rose
„That day, she became categorically certain of two things: that he annoyed her, profoundly, and, if she could, she would never leave him.“
— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
The Most Beautiful Book in the World: Eight Novellas
„E vinovat de adulter? Atunci e vinovat si de casatorie. Cum se poate merge in fata unui primar sau a unui preot pentru a primi garantia ca niciodata un barbat nu se va atinge de alta femeie decat de nevasta lui? Ce om in toate mintile va sustine asa ceva altfel decat constrans?
Oprobiul meu se indreapta impotriva casatoriilor si juramintelor de castitate, nu impotriva adulterului, care mi se pare o desteptare sanatoasa a naturii.“
— Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
L'élixir d'amour
