Francoise Sagan Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Francoise Sagan

  Sad, Beautiful, Regret

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

  Francoise Sagan

  Regret, Book, Want

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• curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

  Francoise Sagan

  Wisdom, Curiosity

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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.

  Francoise Sagan

  Art, Reality, Special

  "Françoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15". Interview with Blair Fuller and Robert B. Silvers, www.theparisreview.org. Autumn 1956.

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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

  Desire, Fear Of Love, Pleasure

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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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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  Husband, Good Love, Thinking

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• Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.

  Francoise Sagan

  Writing, Ideas, Shadow

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• The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?

  Francoise Sagan

  Reading, People, Asks

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• It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.

  Francoise Sagan

  Believe, Thinking, Drunk

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• Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

  Francoise Sagan

  Girl, Suffering, Littles

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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

  Eye, Reflection, People

  "Those Without Shadows". Book by Françoise Sagan, 1957.

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

  Francoise Sagan

  Time, Thinking, Trying

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

  Francoise Sagan

  Sorry, Men, Problem

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• Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.

  Francoise Sagan

  Laughter, Laughing

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

  Francoise Sagan

  Falling In Love, Fall, Conventional

  "Those Without Shadows". Book by Françoise Sagan, 1957.

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• For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

  Francoise Sagan

  Writing, Arbitrary, Jazz

  "Françoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15". Interview with Blair Fuller and Robert B. Silvers, www.theparisreview.org. Autumn 1956.

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• happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.

  Francoise Sagan

  Happiness, Achievement, Great Achievement

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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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

  Song, Laughter, Wine

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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.

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  Thinking, Dostoyevsky, Limitation

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

  Francoise Sagan

  Long, Bearable

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• It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.

  Francoise Sagan

  Friendship, Positive

  Francoise Sagan (1956). “Certain Smile”

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

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  Way, Pleasure, Best Way

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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.

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  Commitment, Views, Ideas

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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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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  Real, Nice, Would Be

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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• Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.

  Francoise Sagan

  Asparagus, Matter, Taste

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