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Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
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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Writer
9th arrondissement
Paris
Françoise Quoirez
Sagan
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Francoise Sagan
Françoise Delphine Quoirez
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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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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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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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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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Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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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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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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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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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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What you call types of mind are only mental ages.
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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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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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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
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Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
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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 like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
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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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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
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I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
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