Quotes by Francoise Sagan

*A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

*After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.

*Art must take reality by surprise.

*Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

*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.

*Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.

*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.

*One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

*The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

*To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

*Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

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