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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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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
Impressions
Intuition
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Thoughts
Life
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I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.
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A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
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I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
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happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
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My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?
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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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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
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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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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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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
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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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At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
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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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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
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