# Françoise Sagan's most beautiful quotes

"Insouciance is the only feeling that can inspire our life", the man who would rather be unhappy for a good reason and the right to destroy oneself: the most quoted lines of Françoise Sagan, from Bonjour Tristesse to Aimez-vous Brahms?, with their source.

- 11 votes · 11 items
- Dec 29, 2019 · madamebidouilleur
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## Top 11

1. **It is always on other people's bodies that we discover our own.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A Certain Smile (1956).
2. **Insouciance is the only feeling that can inspire our life without having any arguments to defend itself.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Bonjour Tristesse (1954).
3. **Why should I waste my time preparing my future, when only my present interests me. And fulfils me.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Aimez-vous Brahms? (1959).
4. **Women were all the same, never happy. And it was always your fault.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Sunlight on Cold Water (1969).
5. **They loved youth not to amuse themselves or hand out useless advice, but because they found it more interesting than middle age.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Those Without Shadows (1957).
6. **I believe I have the right to destroy myself as long as I harm no one.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — In court, at her drug-use trial (1995).
7. **You get used to other people's faults when you don't think it your duty to correct them.** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Bonjour Tristesse (1954).
8. **I don't know if it is love or understanding; it doesn't matter. We are alone, each on our own side.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A Certain Smile (1956).
9. **He was at that exquisite stage of love when you adore quarrelling.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sunlight on Cold Water (1969).
10. **He preferred to have been unhappy for a good reason than happy for a bad one.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Aimez-vous Brahms? (1959).
11. **Living, in the end, meant managing to be as content as possible. And that was not so easy.** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — A Certain Smile (1956).

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