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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
Françoise Quoirez
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What you call types of mind are only mental ages.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
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Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.
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It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
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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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happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
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Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
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pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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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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I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
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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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