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curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.
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
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
Sagan
Françoise
Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
Curiosity
Beginning
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I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both.
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At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
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Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
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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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It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
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The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.
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People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
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Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
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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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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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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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I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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