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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you
— Francoise Sagan
Then we'll take the train to Paris tonight. There is a night train, isn't there? We'll catch it at Cannes.
— Francoise Sagan
Pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
— Francoise Sagan
What we love we may also despise.
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One partner is always more in love than the other.
— Francoise Sagan
Your idea of love is rather primitive. It's not a series of sensations, independent of each other ... It's something different ... a sense of loss ...
— Francoise Sagan
A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.
— Francoise Sagan
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 it less arbitrary.
— Francoise Sagan
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 to be beautiful.
— Francoise Sagan
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer from it that increases.
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Thirty-year-old children who refused to act like grown-ups.
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I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare ... Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.
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He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.
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There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.
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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
— Francoise Sagan
Sometimes I belonged to the pure and beautiful race of nomads, and at others to the poor withered breed of hedonists.
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I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
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We are born crying, and for good reason,' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.
— Francoise Sagan
Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.
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She wasn't a courtesan, nor an intellectual, nor the mother of a family - she was nothing at all. And
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The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
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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 me.
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Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
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No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
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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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his conscience washed clean by happiness.
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There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.
— Francoise Sagan
In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
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We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.
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I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.
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I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
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It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
— Francoise Sagan
Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.
— Francoise Sagan
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.
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When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.
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He knew this euphoria of hers: it was the euphoria of being alone.
— Francoise Sagan
She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants ...
— Francoise Sagan
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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For unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
— Francoise Sagan
At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
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Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
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Happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
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You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
— Francoise Sagan
If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.
— Francoise Sagan
The happiness of others is never bearable for very long ...
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Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.
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Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
— Francoise Sagan
Art must take reality by surprise.
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The number of times she'd said "wait and see" to herself in her thirty years of existence was way beyond counting.
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Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.
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I realised that procrastination can rule our lives, yet not provide us with any arguments in its defence.
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I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
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I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.
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What you call types of mind are only mental ages.
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Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
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Cynicism always enchanted me by producing a delicious feeling of self-assurance and of being in league with myself
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My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?
— Francoise Sagan
Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
— Francoise Sagan
It is a known fact that every man's heart is set on having a daughter.
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She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.
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Happiness is always subject to slander.
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.
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No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
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For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.
— Francoise Sagan
Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.
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After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
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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 hasn't any brothers.
— Francoise Sagan
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
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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.
— Francoise Sagan
Neither one of them hesitated to translate feeling into action, when an opportunity arose.
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The happiness is real, and the love is not.
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I always believe things are going to work out.
— Francoise Sagan
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.
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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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For with the complete disappearance of my boredom, to which I had not dared to give a name, I had changed for the better.
— Francoise Sagan
No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it ...
— Francoise Sagan