Quotes by Francoise Sagan

About Francoise Sagan:

Françoise Sagan was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Hailed as "a charming little monster" by François Mauriac on the front page of Le Figaro, Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first – Bonjour Tristesse (1954) – which was written when she was a teenager.
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Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.

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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.

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Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

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He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well without the other party.

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Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.

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his conscience washed clean by happiness.

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What we love we may also despise.

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He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.

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There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.

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Summer fell upon Paris, with everyone still intently following his own subterranean course of passion or habit and looking up like a startled creature of the night at the blazing June sun. Now, all of a sudden, there was an impelling necessity to go ...

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We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.

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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.

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She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants...

Francoise Sagan

Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.

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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.

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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 its complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remor...

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Art must take reality by surprise.

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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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Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.

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I always believe things are going to work out.

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Author Bio

  • NameFrancoise Sagan
  • DescriptionFrench author (1935-2004)
  • AliasesFrançoise Quoirez
  • BornJune 21, 1935
  • DiedSeptember 24, 2004
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionWriter; Playwright; Novelist; Screenwriter
  • AwardsPrince Pierre Foundation