Françoise Sagan Quotes

To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.

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.

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.