Francoise Sagan
Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.Collection: Intuition
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.Collection: Expression
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.Collection: Book
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?Collection: Character
I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.Collection: Discovery
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.Collection: Drama
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.Collection: Eye
No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it.Collection: People
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.Collection: Aversion
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.Collection: Art
curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.Collection: Believe
For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.Collection: Desire
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.Collection: Writing
The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?Collection: Reading
No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.Collection: Falling In Love
I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.Collection: Sorry
I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.Collection: Time
The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.Collection: Long
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Thinking
happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.Collection: Happiness
Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.Collection: Laughter
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.Collection: Commitment
It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Real
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.Collection: Writing
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.Collection: Writing
I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.Collection: Eye
He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.Collection: Morning
What you call types of mind are only mental ages.Collection: Mind
The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.Collection: Passion
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.Collection: Brother
Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.Collection: Dog