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Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
Francoise Sagan
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Francoise Sagan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1935
Born: June 21
Died: 2004
Died: September 24
Biographer
Film Director
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
Sagan
Françoise
Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
Laughing
Nothing
Like
Jealousy
Brings
Laughter
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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 like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
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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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happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
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