Françoise Sagan cytaty

„Pół prawdy to całe kłamstwo.”

„Kiedy kobieta jest piękna? Kiedy mężczyźni ją za taką uważają.”

„Głupota nie zawsze czyni złym, złość zawsze czyni głupim.”

„Nie można kochać za każdym razem.”

„Człowiek nie staje się nudystą. Po prostu taki się już rodzi.”

„Człowiek rozsądny zawsze twierdzi, że rozumie kobiety. Człowiek zakochany męczy się, żeby je naprawdę zrozumieć.”

„Mężczyźni chełpią się tym, czym są, kobiety, czym nie są.”

„Istnieją smutni ludzie młodzi, dlatego że w miłości zawsze trudno sobie poradzić i zawsze się trochę oberwie. Im wcześniej tym lepiej.”

„Inteligencja: – męczy posiadacza, a nikogo nie przekonuje.”

„W miłości jak na wojnie – biada zwyciężonym.”

„Metoda poznawania ludzi: – ci którzy brzydną uśmiechając się, są źli.”

„Kochać to przede wszystkim rozumieć.”

„Strój kobiecy ma znaczenie tylko o tyle, o ile zachęca mężczyznę, by go z niej zdjął.”

„Wszystkie małżeństwa są udane. Trudność powstaje dopiero, gdy zaczyna się wspólne życie.”

“The ways of love are all the same, whether infantile, childish, sexual, tender, sadistic, erotic, or whispered. It's simply a question of understanding, of understanding oneself above all: in bed, in broad daylight, madly or not at all, in shadow, in sunlight, in despair or at table. Otherwise, it's no use. Any of it. And the little time we have left for living, while we're still alive, in other words capable of giving pleasure, and the little time we have left for thinking (or pretending to) in this vast, mindless cacophony that daily life has become, ineluctable, uncontrollable, and truly unacceptable to any civilized person, we must make absolutely certain that we share.”

“For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.”

“Could you love a woman you didn't respect? Could you worship someone without believeing in her? Could you be madly in love with a woman you didn't admire? Well, you could. Not only that, it might be better that way. Easier. It took Paul almost forty years to learn that carnal platitude. Nevertheless, he always took Sonia to dinners where, sooner or later, her stupidity would explode, with the result that brighter souls would inevitably pick up on it right away and cast a sympathetic, albeit ironical, look in his direction, which only excited him all the more.”

“Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.”

“One is never free except in relation to someone else. And when, the relation is based on happiness, it allows the greatest freedom in the world.”

“Just because life is inelegant doesn't mean we have to behave likewise.”

“She'd like to be indispensable; that's what every woman wants…”

“Very broadly, I think one writes and rewrites the same book. I lead a character from book to book, I continue along with the same ideas. Only the angle of vision, the method, the lighting, change.”

“We always want someone we've treated badly to be gay. It's less upsetting.”

“Paul had always thought that women were never more serious than when they were naked.”

“One must cherish one's effigies, if one can tolerate them, perhaps more lovingly than one cherishes one's intrinsic self.”

“Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is indispensable to us, even if we have got along very well without it before.”

“Edouard was trying to understand, to find out what he could have done to lose Beatrice's favor. He couldn't know that his unpardonable sin was the fact that he was too deserving.”

“Desire, even the basest, kind, required the notion of futurity if it was ever to come off. A man without a future, a dying man, was no longer desirable. And however stupid such a reaction might have seemed, Paul knew that if the situation was ever reversed, he would feel the same way about the woman. Desire would have turned into compassion. Which is tantamount to saying that desire would vanish into thin air.”

“When a man has dreamed of winning something by a colossal stroke of luck, he is prone to neglect petty but more practical ways of attaining it.”

“No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.”

“Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion. Art should not, it seems to me, pose the “real” as a preoccupation. Nothing is more unreal than certain so-called “realist” novels — they’re nightmares. It is possible to achieve in a novel a certain sensory truth — the true feeling of a character — that is all.”

“It's not doubt that drives people crazy, it's certainty that does.”

“It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.”

“Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.”

“Women believed in death. Without exception. It was part of their makeup. Whereas men refused to face up to it. Not only death, in fact, but life, too: a man, learning that his wife or girlfriend is pregnant, reacts like some beast of the field - "I can't believe it's true!" - while women look at the same situation as either happy news or a momentary inconvenience.”

“The fact that a woman you love reaches a point in the relationship where she ceases to love you, and despite that you can never bring yourself to scorn or despise her, is very rare indeed.”

“In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.”

“Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.”

“I can say everything to you. It's a wonderful feeling. I never could tell Francoise that I don't really love her, that our marriage isn't based on any hones ideal. It's founded on my weariness and boredom. Although those are solid enough bases. Plenty of lasting marriages are build on them, God knows. At least, they're always present.”

“No one, but no one, ever behaves "well" in bed unless they love or are loved — two conditions seldom fulfilled.”

“Jazz music is a form of accelerated unconcern.”

“Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little — oh, I admit only a very little — of what life is about.”

“No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.”