Françoise Sagan's most beautiful quotes
The top 3 according to 11 votes from people: It is always on other people's bodies that we discover our own. · Insouciance is the only feeling that can inspire our life without having any arguments to defend itself. · Why should I waste my time preparing my future, when only my present interests me. And fulfils me.. (Updated Dec 29, 2019.)
"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.
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Top 11
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It is always on other people's bodies that we discover our own.
A Certain Smile (1956).
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Insouciance is the only feeling that can inspire our life without having any arguments to defend itself.
Bonjour Tristesse (1954).
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Why should I waste my time preparing my future, when only my present interests me. And fulfils me.
Aimez-vous Brahms? (1959).
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Women were all the same, never happy. And it was always your fault.
Sunlight on Cold Water (1969).
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They loved youth not to amuse themselves or hand out useless advice, but because they found it more interesting than middle age.
Those Without Shadows (1957).
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I believe I have the right to destroy myself as long as I harm no one.
In court, at her drug-use trial (1995).
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You get used to other people's faults when you don't think it your duty to correct them.
Bonjour Tristesse (1954).
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I don't know if it is love or understanding; it doesn't matter. We are alone, each on our own side.
A Certain Smile (1956).
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He was at that exquisite stage of love when you adore quarrelling.
Sunlight on Cold Water (1969).
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He preferred to have been unhappy for a good reason than happy for a bad one.
Aimez-vous Brahms? (1959).
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Living, in the end, meant managing to be as content as possible. And that was not so easy.
A Certain Smile (1956).
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