No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love. — Francoise Sagan Conventional Copy Share Image
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance. — Francoise Sagan Asparagus Copy Share Image
The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at… — Francoise Sagan Expression Copy Share Image
“We are born crying, and for good reason,' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted… — Françoise Sagan Life Copy Share Image
“He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.” — Françoise Sagan Dreams Copy Share Image
If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad,… — Francoise Sagan Becoming Copy Share Image
When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to… — Francoise Sagan Apollo Copy Share Image
“Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.” — Françoise Sagan Writing Copy Share Image
“Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passion or habit and looking up like a… — Françoise Sagan Habits Copy Share Image
“On s’habitue aux défauts des autres quand on ne croit pas de son devoir de les corriger.” — Françoise Sagan Observational Copy Share Image
No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they… — Francoise Sagan Eye Copy Share Image
“I saw an exquisite pink and blue shell on the sea-bottom. I dove for it, and held it, smooth and hollow in… — Françoise Sagan Lucky charm Copy Share Image
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read. — Francoise Sagan Book Copy Share Image
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life… — Francoise Sagan Arbitrary Copy Share Image
Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to… — Francoise Sagan Ifs Copy Share Image
Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the… — Francoise Sagan Art Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that… — Francoise Sagan Cynical Copy Share Image
He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such… — Francoise Sagan Arbitrary Copy Share Image
