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Art must take reality by surprise.
Francoise Sagan
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Francoise Sagan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1935
Born: June 21
Died: 2004
Died: September 24
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Film Director
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9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
Sagan
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Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
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It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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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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Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
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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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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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