"He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or……" — Francoise Sagan
"He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would have shocked me, but I knew that in his case they did not exclude tenderness and devotion - feelings which came all the more easily to him since he was determined that they should be transient."
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Francoise Sagan
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57 Quotes by Francoise Sagan
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Passion is the salt of life, and that at the times when we are under its spell this salt is…
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Curiosity is the beginning of all wisdom.
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In love, as in finance, only the rich can get credit.
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No one is more conventional than a woman who is falling out of love.
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Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.
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Love is worth whatever it costs.
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