Francoise Sagan Quotes
Top 91 wise famous quotes and sayings by Francoise Sagan
Francoise Sagan Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Then we'll take the train to Paris tonight. There is a night train, isn't there? We'll catch it at Cannes.
Your idea of love is rather primitive. It's not a series of sensations, independent of each other ... It's something different ... a sense of loss ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.
Sometimes I belonged to the pure and beautiful race of nomads, and at others to the poor withered breed of hedonists.
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
We are born crying, and for good reason,' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.
Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.
She wasn't a courtesan, nor an intellectual, nor the mother of a family - she was nothing at all. And
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.
No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
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.
I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.
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.
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
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.
If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.
The number of times she'd said "wait and see" to herself in her thirty years of existence was way beyond counting.
Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.
I realised that procrastination can rule our lives, yet not provide us with any arguments in its defence.
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.
Cynicism always enchanted me by producing a delicious feeling of self-assurance and of being in league with myself
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?
She said she didn't love him, and he said it didn't matter, and the poverty of their words brought tears to their eyes.
For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.
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.
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
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.
I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.