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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
Resignation
Unhappiness
Ugly
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Nothing
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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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Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
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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.
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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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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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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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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 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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I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
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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 shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
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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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Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
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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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What you call types of mind are only mental ages.
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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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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
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Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
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