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George Sand Quotes
Best Quotes by George Sand (Top 10)
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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
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Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.
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Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
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The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
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The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine
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I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.
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More George Sand Quotes
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Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
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There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.
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Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
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One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
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The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
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If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.
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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
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The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
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