Françoise Sagan Quotes

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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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I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.

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It's not doubt that drives people crazy, it's certainty that does.

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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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These were the things he enjoyed: an unexpected face, the feel of a glass in his hand, low-voiced confidences that went on until dawn and were succeeded by exhaustion.

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I've often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life's vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.

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I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.

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A dress has no meaning unless it makes a man want to take it off.

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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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Women believed in death. Without exception. It was part of their makeup. Whereas men refused to face up to it. Not only death, in fact, but life, too: a man, learning that his wife or girlfriend is pregnant, reacts like some beast of the field - "I can't believe it's true!" - while women look at the same situation as either happy news or a momentary inconvenience.

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Jazz music is an intensified insouciance.

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