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 about.

Francoise Sagan
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  1. To jealousy nothing is more frightful than laughter.

  2. I have loved to the point of madness that which is called madness that which to me is the only sensible way to love.

  3. 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 about.

  4. I always believe things are going to work out.

  5. One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

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