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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.

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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Playwright
Screenwriter
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9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
Sagan
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Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
Laughter
Wine
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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
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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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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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I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
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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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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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I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.
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