Quotes by Francoise Sagan

• 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.
• 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.
• To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
• The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
• One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
• Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
• 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.
• Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
• Art must take reality by surprise.
• 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.