Francoise Sagan Quotes

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• Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.

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  Funny, Money, Humor

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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.

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  Love, Beautiful, Age

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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.

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  Love, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

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  Happiness, Jealousy, Laughter

  1965 La Chamade, ch.9.

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• Love is worth whatever it costs.

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  Love Is, Cost

  "Bonjour Tristesse". Book by Françoise Sagan, 1954.

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• A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

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  Funny, Friendship, Hilarious

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• We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.

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  Despair, Torn, Craving

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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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  Passion, Salt, Indispensable

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

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• I always believe things are going to work out.

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  Believe, Work Out, Going To Work

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• Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.

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  Curiosity

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

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• Art must take reality by surprise.

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  Art, Reality, Surprise

  1958 Writers at Work.

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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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  Men, Dating, He Man

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• Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.

  Francoise Sagan

  Gambling, Ferrari, Whisky

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• One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

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  Friendship, Happiness, Smile

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• Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

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  Relationship, Broken Heart, Cells

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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.

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  Desire, Vitality, Needs

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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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.

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  Imagination, Mad, Becoming

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• I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.

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  Strong, Men, Behave

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• Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.

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  Opposites, Impossible, Illness

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• Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

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  Feelings, Playing Jazz, Nonchalance

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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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  Love Life, Long, Life Is

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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.

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  Art, Believe, Opposites

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

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  Credit, Finance, Rich

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

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• At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.

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  Night, Sea, Goes On

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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, Regret

  FRANCOISE SAGAN (1955). “BONOUR TRISTESSE”

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