Françoise Sagan Short Quotes

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Jazz music is an intensified insouciance.

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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

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

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

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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

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The happiness of others is never bearable for very long...

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Pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

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She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants...

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

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

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

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No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it.

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

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The wealthy had a passion for bargains as lively as it was pointless.

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

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We always want someone we've treated badly to be gay. It's less upsetting.

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People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

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It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.

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I have nothing against drugs, but alcohol suits me and the rest frightens me.

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It amused me to think that if one told the truth when drunk, nobody believed it.

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

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Paul had always thought that women were never more serious than when they were naked.

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Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.

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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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I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.

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

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Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible. You lose so many things when you're ill.

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