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No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it.
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I always believe that things are going to work out. It's in my nature. Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it.
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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
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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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I can say everything to you. It's a wonderful feeling. I never could tell Francoise that I don't really love her, that our marriage isn't based on any hones ideal. It's founded on my weariness and boredom. Although those are solid enough bases. Plenty of lasting marriages are build on them, God knows. At least, they're always present.
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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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No one, but no one, ever behaves "well" in bed unless they love or are loved — two conditions seldom fulfilled.
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Edouard was trying to understand, to find out what he could have done to lose Beatrice's favor. He couldn't know that his unpardonable sin was the fact that he was too deserving.
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One is never free except in relation to someone else. And when, the relation is based on happiness, it allows the greatest freedom in the world.
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People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
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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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Paul had always thought that women were never more serious than when they were naked.
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It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
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The fact that a woman you love reaches a point in the relationship where she ceases to love you, and despite that you can never bring yourself to scorn or despise her, is very rare indeed.
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When a man has dreamed of winning something by a colossal stroke of luck, he is prone to neglect petty but more practical ways of attaining it.
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It amused me to think that if one told the truth when drunk, nobody believed it.
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I never make moral judgments. All I would say is that a person was droll, or gay, or, above all, a bore. Making judgments for or against my characters bores me enormously; it doesn't interest me at all. The only morality for a novelist is the morality of his esthétique.
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Realizing that you're important to someone because he's jealous may well be exhilarating. It certainly is a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.
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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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We always want someone we've treated badly to be gay. It's less upsetting.
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I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.
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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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I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.
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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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Françoise Sagan
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Born:
June 21, 1935
Died:
September 24, 2004
(aged 69)
Bio:
Françoise Sagan real name Françoise Quoirez was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter.
Known for:
Bonjour Tristesse (1954)
A Certain Smile (1956)
Aimez-vous Brahms? (1959)
La Chamade (1965)
Bonjour tristesse [and] A certain smile (1961)
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