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It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
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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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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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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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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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 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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For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.
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Art must take reality by surprise.
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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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For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
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People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
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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 read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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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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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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There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.
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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
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The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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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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At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
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