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Francoise Sagan Inspirational Quotes (60)

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If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.
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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
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If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.
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People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
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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 the front a writer puts on the face of reality.
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curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.
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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.
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Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
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Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
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At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.
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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 we have got along very well without it before.
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I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
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I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
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I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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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 of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
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It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
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It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
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For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.
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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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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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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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