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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
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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
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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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Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
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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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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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It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
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Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
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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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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 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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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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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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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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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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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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