Francoise Sagan Quotes - Page 3

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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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• One partner is always more in love than the other.

  Francoise Sagan

  Partners

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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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• 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

  Way, Film, Arcs

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• Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.

  Francoise Sagan

  Ugly, Unhappiness, Teach

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

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

  Francoise Sagan

  Way, Pleasure, Best Way

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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.

  Francoise Sagan

  Firefly, People, Bangs

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• pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.

  Francoise Sagan

  Uplifting, Military, Pity

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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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

  Jealousy, Dying, Affair

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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

  Passion, Writing, People

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

  Francoise Sagan

  People, Forgiving, Unhappiness

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• No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.

  Francoise Sagan

  Two, Bed, Wells

  "Scars on the Soul". Book by Françoise Sagan, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, 1974.

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• Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.

  Francoise Sagan

  Intuition, Impression, Ifs

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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

  Expression, People, Faces

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• I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

  Francoise Sagan

  Strong, Writing, Desire

  "Françoise Sagan: 'She did what she wanted'" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2014.

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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

  Book, Years, Feelings

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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?

  Francoise Sagan

  Character, Sides, Enough

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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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

  Writing, Character, Finding The One

  "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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• It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.

  Francoise Sagan

  People, Would Be, Form

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• I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

  Francoise Sagan

  Proust

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

  Francoise Sagan

  Discovery, Irritated, Vulnerable

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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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.

  Francoise Sagan

  Drama, College, People

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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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

  Eye, Reality, Two

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

  Francoise Sagan

  People, Too Much

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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

  Aversion, Littles, Life Is

  "Scars on the Soul". Book by Françoise Sagan, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, 1974.

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