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pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
Francoise Sagan
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Francoise Sagan
Age: 69 †
Born: 1935
Born: June 21
Died: 2004
Died: September 24
Biographer
Film Director
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
Sagan
Françoise
Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
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Pity
Military
Music
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
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People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
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It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
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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'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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Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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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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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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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
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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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I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
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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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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
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