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Love is worth whatever it costs.
Art must take reality by surprise.
curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.
Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.
I always believe things are going to work out.
What you call types of mind are only mental ages.
One partner is always more in love than the other.
I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
happiness has always seemed to me a great achievement.
At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
The happiness of others is never bearable for very long.
Houses are for private living, for friends, and for dogs.
I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music.
I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
Looking for pleasure is the best way to ensure you won't find it.
No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it.
The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless.
Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.
Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.
People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.
It isn't common sense that is paramount in this world, it's wishful thinking.
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.
It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.
It is healthier to see the good points of others than to analyze our own bad ones.
I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.
One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
I feel sorry for men. They have more problems than women, because they now have to compete with women.
Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.
Writing is just having a sheet of paper, a pen and not a shadow of an idea of what you are going to say.
Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance.
No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?