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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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Film Director
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9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
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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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Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
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pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
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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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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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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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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 had a strong desire to write and some free time.
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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
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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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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.
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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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I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
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At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
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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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Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
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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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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
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