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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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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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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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Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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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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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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I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
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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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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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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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Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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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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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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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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No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
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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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I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
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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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