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"I'm not pessimistic about people in general, but only about the way they live."
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"First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law."

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"My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more."

"It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people."
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