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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.

— Françoise Sagan Scars on the Soul (1972)

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No one, but no one, ever behaves "well" in bed unless they love or are loved — two conditions seldom fulfilled.

Scars on the Soul (1972)

Just because life is inelegant doesn't mean we have to behave likewise.

Scars on the Soul (1972)

It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.

Un certain sourire (1955)

No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.

Dans un mois, dans un an (1957)

It's not doubt that drives people crazy, it's certainty that does.

Un chagrin de passage (1994)

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