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.
• Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
• 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…
• 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…
• Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
• 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…
• 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…
• Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
• In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
• No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
• Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
• Love is worth whatever it costs.
• 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…
• 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…
• The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
• 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…
• I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
• I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
• It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
• 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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