Françoise Sagan Quotes

To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.

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.

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.

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 away, to give a continuation or a meaning to the winter that had just gone by.

his conscience washed clean by happiness.

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.