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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.
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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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 have loved to the point of madness That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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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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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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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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If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.
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Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.
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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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Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
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Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.
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Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
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I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.
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