Francoise Sagan Quotes
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I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
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Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
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There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved…
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It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts…
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their…
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Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if…
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Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
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No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily…
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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 confirm that he…
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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest…
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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
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It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
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Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little ... oh, I…
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