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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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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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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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Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
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curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.
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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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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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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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pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
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Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
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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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Art must take reality by surprise.
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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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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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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
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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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