Françoise Sagan - Dying Quotes

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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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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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She wasn't afraid of dying, for to die is nothing in itself, no more than cutting a final wisdom tooth.

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A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start.... It is certainly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.

Françoise Sagan

Desire, even the basest, kind, required the notion of futurity if it was ever to come off. A man without a future, a dying man, was no longer desirable. And however stupid such a reaction might have seemed, Paul knew that if the situation was ever reversed, he would feel the same way about the woman. Desire would have turned into compassion. Which is tantamount to saying that desire would vanish into thin air.

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