38 quotes found
Writer · French · 1935–2004
French writer (1935–2004)
“What we love we may also despise.”
“Art must take reality by surprise.”
“Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.”
“his conscience washed clean by happiness.”
“Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.”
“I always believe things are going to work out.”
“The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.”
“To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
“A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.”
“To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
“Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.”
“I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.”
“I have loved to the point of madness that which is called madness that which to me is the only sensible way to love.”
“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 a...”
“One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.”
“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
“Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
“For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.”
“I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.”
“For what Luc was in fact proposing was just a game, an enticing game, but, even so, one that could destroy my undoubtedly quite genuine feelings for Bertrand; and it could destroy something else wi...”
“Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.”
“Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.”
