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One Quotes by Francoise Sagan
- 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…
- 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…
- No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
- 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…
- The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
- Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true.…
- Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort…
- It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
- One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
- Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels…
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