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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
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
Screenwriter
Writer
9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
Sagan
Françoise
Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
Ugly
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Resignation
Unhappiness
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I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.
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curiosity is the beginning of 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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Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
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When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.
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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 shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
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I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.
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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
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It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the fronts people assume before one another's eyes, and the front a writer puts on the face of reality.
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My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?
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Art must take reality by surprise.
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It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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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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It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
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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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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.
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