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Françoise Sagan Quotes

1935–2004 France

Françoise Sagan (21 June 1935 – 24 September 2004), real name Françoise Quoirez, was a French dramatist, playwright, novelist, and screenwriter, most famous for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters.

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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.

Dans un mois, dans un an (1957)

Love is worth whatever it costs.

Bonjour Tristesse (1954)

The fact that a woman you love reaches a point in the relationship where she ceases to love you, and despite that you can never bring yourself to scorn or despise her, is very rare indeed.

Un chagrin de passage (1994)

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.

Paris Review interview (1956)

Edouard was trying to understand, to find out what he could have done to lose Beatrice's favor. He couldn't know that his unpardonable sin was the fact that he was too deserving.

Dans un mois, dans un an (1957)

I don’t search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity.

Paris Review interview (1956)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Françoise Sagan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.