George Sand Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

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Art for the sake of art itself is an idle sentence. Art for the sake of truth, for the sake of what is beautiful and good — that is the creed I seek.

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We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

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We are of nature, in nature, by nature, and for nature. Talent, will, genius, are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

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Another places upon his nose a pair of paper or wooden spectacles; he performs the duty of engineer, — comes, goes, makes a plan, looks at the workmen, draws lines, plays the pedant, cries that everything is being ruined, causes the work to be abandoned and resumed at his will, and directs it at great length and as absurdly as possible.

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No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

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It is the violence of their ideas and the blind haste of their passion that make men awkward when with women. A man who has blunted a little his sensations, at first studies to please rather than to be loved.

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Laurent was very sincere. When he lied, he was the first person deceived.

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Faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

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To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

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The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

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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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You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder.

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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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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

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Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

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The profession of writing is nothing else but a violent, indestructible passion. When it has once entered people's heads it never leaves them.

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Guard 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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The progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

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Obstacles usually stimulate passion, but sometimes they kill it.

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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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