„L'illusione dell' arte è far credere che la letteratura sia rappresentazione della vita ma in realtà accade l'opposto.“
citato in Corriere della sera, 25 settembre 2004
Frasi di Françoise Sagan
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Françoise Sagan
Data di nascita: 21. Giugno 1935
Data di morte: 24. Settembre 2004
Altri nomi: Françoise Saganová
Françoise Sagan, nome d'arte di Françoise Quoirez , è stata una scrittrice francese.
Photo: Stiopik, Own work / CC BY-SA 4.0
Frasi Françoise Sagan
„Non ho nulla contro gli stupefacenti; semplicemente, l'alcol mi basta, e il resto mi fa paura.“
da La guardia del cuore, traduzione di Miro Silvera, Sellerio
„Perché la Francia mi odia? Perché mi vuole morta?“
citato in Corriere della sera, 26 settembre 2001
„Ho amato fino alla follia, ma ciò che gli altri chiamano follia per me è l' unico modo di amare.“
citato in Corriere della sera, 25 settembre 2004
„I don’t search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity.“
Paris Review interview (1956)
Contesto: I don’t search for exactitude in portraying people. I try to give to imaginary people a kind of veracity. It would bore me to death to put into my novels the people I know. It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the “fronts” people assume before one another’s eyes, and the “front” a writer puts on the face of reality.
„For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.“
Paris Review interview (1956)
Contesto: For me 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.
„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.“
Un chagrin de passage (1994, A Fleeting Sorrow, translated 1995)
„Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.“
— Françoise Sagan, libro Dans un mois, dans un an
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
„We always want someone we've treated badly to be gay. It's less upsetting.“
— Françoise Sagan, libro A Certain Smile
Un certain sourire (1955, A Certain Smile, translated 1956)
„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.“
— Françoise Sagan, libro A Certain Smile
Un certain sourire (1955, A Certain Smile, translated 1956)
„Paul had always thought that women were never more serious than when they were naked.“
Un chagrin de passage (1994, A Fleeting Sorrow, translated 1995)
„Lying stimulates one's imagination and ingenuity.“
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1969, Sunlight on Cold Water, translated 1971)
„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.“
— Françoise Sagan, libro Dans un mois, dans un an
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
„Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.“
— Françoise Sagan, libro Dans un mois, dans un an
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
„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.“
Un chagrin de passage (1994, A Fleeting Sorrow, translated 1995)
„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.“
— Françoise Sagan, libro Dans un mois, dans un an
Dans un mois, dans un an (1957, Those Without Shadows, translated 1957)
