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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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Film Director
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9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
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Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
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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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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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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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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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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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It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
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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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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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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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I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
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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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There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.
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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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At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
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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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What you call types of mind are only mental ages.
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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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I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
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