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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
Francoise Sagan
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Francoise Sagan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1935
Born: June 21
Died: 2004
Died: September 24
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9th arrondissement
Paris
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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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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
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The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.
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happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
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If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.
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Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
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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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Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
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Art must take reality by surprise.
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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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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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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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curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.
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Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
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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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It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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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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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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