Françoise Sagan Quotes

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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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Jazz music is an intensified insouciance.

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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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I don't search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity. It would bore me to death to put into my novels the people I know. 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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She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants...

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There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.

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There can never be enough said of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

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Just because life is inelegant doesn't mean we have to behave likewise.

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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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But the Earth was soon going to find out that her children, these transitory creatures, had discovered the means not only of dying more quickly on her flanks, but of causing her to die along with them; the means to blow her up and destroy their foster mother, their only friend.

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The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.

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Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.

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