146 Quotes by Françoise Sagan

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I’m convinced she’ll get away with it. It’s the only way to get through life.

I’ve often found myself preferring second-rate people to supposedly superior people, simply and solely because of their uncontrollable tendency to bang themselves against the sides of life’s vast lampshade like fireflies or moths.

If you don’t have imagination you’re lost. But it’s a virtue that’s becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.

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.

Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.

To live, in fact, means resolve everything so you can be satisfied. And that is not so easy.

I’ve read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.

It’s not worth loving... it needs to be loved.

When man, Apollo man, rockets into space, it isn’t in order to find his brother, I’m quite sure of that. It’s to confirm that he hasn’t any brothers.