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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
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Film Director
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9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
Sagan
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Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
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The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
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What you call types of mind are only mental ages.
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When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn't in order to find his brother, I'm quite sure of that. It's to confirm that he hasn't any brothers.
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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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It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
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Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.
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Art must take reality by surprise.
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I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
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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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Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
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At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
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It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the fronts people assume before one another's eyes, and the front a writer puts on the face of reality.
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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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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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Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.
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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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People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
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The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.
Francoise Sagan
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.
Francoise Sagan
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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