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“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
-- George Sand

#Love #Life #Friendship
“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”
-- George Sand

#Life #Inspirational Life #Writing
“Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
-- George Sand

#Angel #Views #Surprise
“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.”
-- George Sand

#Believe #Angel #Men
“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.”
-- George Sand

#Helping Others #Humanity #Trying
“Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.”
-- George Sand

#Flower #Butterfly #Feelings
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
-- George Sand

#Kindness #Regret #Giving
“Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.”
-- George Sand

#Happy #People #Common
“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”
-- George Sand

#Aggravation #Charity
“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.”
-- George Sand

#Believe #Heart #Character
“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.”
-- George Sand

#Beautiful #Art #Phrases
“The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine”
-- George Sand

#Passion #Divine #Capacity
“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.”
-- George Sand

#Doe #World #Matter
“The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world”
-- George Sand

#Prayer #World #Lovers
“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect”
-- George Sand

#Selfish #Self #Self Respect
“Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.”
-- George Sand

#Happiness #Lying #Consciousness
“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.”
-- George Sand

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Simplicity
“Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself”
-- George Sand

#Heart #May
“I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.”
-- George Sand

#Passion #Writing #Tasks
“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.”
-- George Sand

#Heart #Law #Two
“The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.”
-- George Sand

#Different #Aging #Old Woman
“No human creature can give orders to love.”
-- George Sand

#Order #Giving #Humans
“Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.”
-- George Sand

#Cat #Angel #Devil
“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.”
-- George Sand

#Kindness #Regret #Thoughtful
“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.”
-- George Sand

#Funny #Wisdom #Mistake
“Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”
-- George Sand

#Inspirational #Motivational #Strength
“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”
-- George Sand

#Poetry #Noble #Delight
“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.”
-- George Sand

#Beauty #Eye #Soul
“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.”
-- George Sand

#Hands #Knowing #Humanity
“The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.”
-- George Sand

#Writing #Obsession #Violent

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