All George Sand Quotes
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 in
Poetry
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
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I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
George Sand
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I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
George Sand
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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.
George Sand
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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
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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.
George Sand
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
George Sand
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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?
George Sand
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The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
George Sand
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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand in
Work
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
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Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
George Sand
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