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Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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
Curiosity
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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 one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
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A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.
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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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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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Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
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Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
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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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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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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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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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It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
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No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.
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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
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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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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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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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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.
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