Françoise Sagan - Love Quotes

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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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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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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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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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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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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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For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.

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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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The ways of love are all the same, whether infantile, childish, sexual, tender, sadistic, erotic, or whispered. It's simply a question of understanding, of understanding oneself above all: in bed, in broad daylight, madly or not at all, in shadow, in sunlight, in despair or at table. Otherwise, it's no use. Any of it. And the little time we have left for living, while we're still alive, in other words capable of giving pleasure, and the little time we have left for thinking (or pretending to) in this vast, mindless cacophony that daily life has become, ineluctable, uncontrollable, and truly unacceptable to any civilized person, we must make absolutely certain that we share.

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Could you love a woman you didn't respect? Could you worship someone without believeing in her? Could you be madly in love with a woman you didn't admire? Well, you could. Not only that, it might be better that way. Easier. It took Paul almost forty years to learn that carnal platitude. Nevertheless, he always took Sonia to dinners where, sooner or later, her stupidity would explode, with the result that brighter souls would inevitably pick up on it right away and cast a sympathetic, albeit ironical, look in his direction, which only excited him all the more.

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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.

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No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.

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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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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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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.

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Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.

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