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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.
Francoise Sagan
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Francoise Sagan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1935
Born: June 21
Died: 2004
Died: September 24
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9th arrondissement
Paris
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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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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 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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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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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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There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.
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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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happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
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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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People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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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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I did not find him absurd. I saw he was kind, that he was on the verge of real love. I thought it would be nice for me to be in love with him, too.
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