"I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place."
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"I had a strong desire to write and some free time."
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"Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition."
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"pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music."
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"The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless."
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"I don't think there's any intrinsic difference between a lover and a husband. ... If I were cynical, I would say that a woman should have both a good husband and a lover. But I'm not cynical so I'll just say that a woman should have a lover who's a good husband and a husband who's a good lover, perhaps both."
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"One partner is always more in love than the other."
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"I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels."
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"He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me."
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"It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand."
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"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."
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"My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?"
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"There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book."
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"The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present."
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"No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled."
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"All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me."
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"Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it."
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"I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live."
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"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."
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"I dreamt of being a writer once I started to read. I started to write 'Bonjour Tristesse' in bistros around the Sorbonne. I finished it, I sent it to editors. It was accepted."
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