George Sand Quotes

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Of peasants:
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.

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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

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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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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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"The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes," she continued, "is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul."

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Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

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Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

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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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I know that I am a slave, and you are my lord. The law of this country has made you my master. You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power, but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

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I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

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The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.

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The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

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Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

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I have a horror of vanity; it is the quicksand of reason.

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Life is a long ache which rarely sleeps and can never be cured.

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God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

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You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

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The gift of Chopin is [the expression of] the deepest and fullest feelings and emotions that have ever existed. He made a single instrument speak a language of infinity. He could often sum up, in ten lines that a child could play, poems of a boundless exaltation, dramas of unequalled power.

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It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.

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A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

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Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund.

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Love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.

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Of Chopin:
His creation was spontaneous, miraculous. He found it without searching for it, without foreseeing it. It came to his piano suddenly, complete, sublime, or it sang in his head during a walk, and he would hasten to hear it again by, tossing it off on his instrument. But then would begin the most heartbreaking labor I have ever witnessed.

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A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man who gives me his; meanwhile, I will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.

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Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

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We cannot tear a single page from our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire.

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Nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.

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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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To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

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The world takes, from even the most candid heart, the freshness of faith and generosity.

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