George Sand Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
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“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”
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“Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
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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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“Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.”
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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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“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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“Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.”
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“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”
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“I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't slough off.”
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“Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.”
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“The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine”
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“The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.”
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“The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world”
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“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect”
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“Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of 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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“Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself”
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“I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.”
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“God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.”
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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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“Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.”
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“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world. Jimmy Wales 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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“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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“Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”
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“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”
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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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“No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.”
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“The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.”
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