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Francoise Sagan Inspirational Quotes (60)

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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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He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.
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Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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 admit only a very little - of what life is about.
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Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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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?
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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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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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There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.
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Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
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For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
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What you call types of mind are only mental ages.
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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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The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.
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Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
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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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Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
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