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Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
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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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 don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.
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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
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At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
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Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
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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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It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
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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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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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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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Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
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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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Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
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It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
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People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
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