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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
Françoise
Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
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Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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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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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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Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
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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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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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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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I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
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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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It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
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Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
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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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pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
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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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