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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
Novelist
Playwright
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Writer
9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
Sagan
Françoise
Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
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Curiosity
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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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It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
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Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
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I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
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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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Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
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The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.
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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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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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Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
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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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Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
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pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
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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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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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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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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 dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
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happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
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