“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.” LittlesLife IsExtremesRageContradictionAppetiteAversion Author:Francoise Sagan
“If you treat life well, life is usually good to you. And I love life. There's a long-standing affair between us.” IfsWellsLongLife IsStandingTreatsAffairLove LifeI Love Life Author: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.” BelieveArtLife IsCoursesLiteratureIllusionArt IsOppositesFormalTrue LifeGreat Literature Author:Francoise Sagan
“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.” IfsFeelsWritingCharacterLife IsCertainThreeFindingsJazzOneselfRhythmCompareArbitraryLife Is LikeProgressionFinding The One Author:Francoise Sagan