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Bonjour tristesse
Françoise Sagan
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“A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.”
“It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.”
“For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.”
“Your idea of love is rather primitive. It's not a series of sensations, independent of each other...It's something different... a sense of loss...”
“I saw an exquisite pink and blue shell on the sea-bottom. I dove for it, and held it, smooth and hollow in my hand all the morning. I decided it was a lucky charm, and that I would keep it. I am surprised that I have not lost it, for I lose everything. Today it is still pink and warm as it lies in my palm, and makes me feel like crying.”
“Cynicism always enchanted me by producing a delicious feeling of self-assurance and of being in league with myself”
“It's funny how fate, by introducing herself, loves to choose unworthy and mediocre faces”
“I was going away, leaving behind me the villa, the garden and that summer.”
“...above else I was afraid of dullness, peace. To achieve our inner peace, my father and I needed an outer unrest”
“Then I realized that I had attacked a living, sensitive creature, not just an entity.”
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Book Keywords:
vulnerability, love, sadness, truth, romance, sorrow
