"Of course the illusion of art is to……" — Francoise Sagan
"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. Life is amorphous, literature is formal."
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57 Quotes by Francoise Sagan
Francoise Sagan has 57 quotes on this site.
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I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only…
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Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you…
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There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time…
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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…
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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…
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Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is…
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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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Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,…
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Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind…
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It is not a loss of inert, amorphous tissue, but of a growing being unique in history.
— Frederica Mathewes-Green
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The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from…
— John Dewey
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It takes resolution to go forth from the ease and beautiful simplicity of a well-formed hypothesis and struggle with amorphous…
— John Maurice Clark
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And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous…
— Bill Sienkiewicz
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History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for…
— Gwen Ifill
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The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or…
— Paul Vixie
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Some people are averse to competition and allow the words 'co-operation' and 'humanism' to drool from their mouths, apparently meaning…
— Laurance Labadie
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What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous.…
— Chuck Klosterman
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I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware…
— Seth Godin
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