Quotes by Francoise Sagan - Page 2

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Found
Novel
People
Resemblance
People Never Know
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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.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Life Is
Long
Love Life
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I have loved to the point of madness; That which is called madness, That which to me, Is the only sensible way to love.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Love
Philosophical
Philosophy
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Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Arcs
Film
Way
Life Time Way
Arc
Life Time See
Joan
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There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Book
Feelings
Years
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After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Boundaries
Done
Proust
Talent
Certain Things
Marks
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A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Jealousy
Affair
Dying
Signs Of Love
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You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Affair
Celebrate
Dancing
Laughter
Love Affair
New Orleans
Song
Wine
Orleans
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There is a certain age when a woman must be beautiful to be loved, and then there comes a time when she must be loved to be beautiful.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Love
Age
Beautiful
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When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Decision
Finding Yourself
Writing
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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.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Desire
Fear Of Love
Pleasure
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All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Passion
People
Solitude
Writing
All My Life
Life Love Passion
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I recognize limitations in the sense that I've read Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky and Shakespeare . . . Aside from that I don't think of limiting myself.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Dostoyevsky
Limitation
Thinking
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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.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Nice
Real
Would Be
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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.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Men
Brother
Order
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Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Arbitrary
Oneself
Progression
Life Time Life Is A
Life Is A
Rhythmic
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No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Eye
People
Reflection
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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.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Eye
Reality
Two
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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.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Fronts
Trickery
Assume
Puts
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If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Imagination
Becoming
Mad
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Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.
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Indispensable
Passion
Salt
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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.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Expression
Faces
People
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Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Art
Believe
Formal
Great Literature
Illusion
Literature
Opposites
True Life
Life Art Great
Opposite
True
Close
Course
Exactly
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I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Accepted
Editors
Writing
Dreamt
Sent
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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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Morning
Golden
Light
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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.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Desire
Needs
Vitality
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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.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Aversion
Life Is
Littles
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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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College
Drama
People
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Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion.
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Art
Reality
Special
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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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Bangs
Firefly
People
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Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Arbitrary
Character
Compare
Finding The One
Jazz
Oneself
Progression
Rhythm
Writing
Life Time Life Is A
Finding
Life Is A
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I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.
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Eye
Kissing
Thinking
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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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Good Love
Husband
Thinking
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He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient.
Francoise Sagan / Playwright
Commitment
Ideas
Views
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A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of it's complete egoism. 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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Sad
Beautiful
Names
Regret
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