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Love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.
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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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A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
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It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.
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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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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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The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
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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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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 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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Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
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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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You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder.
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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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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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Born:
July 1, 1804
Died:
June 8, 1876
(aged 71)
Bio:
Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and memoirist.
Known for:
Lélia
La Mare Au Diable (1846)
Indiana (1832)
La Petite Fadette (1849)
Mauprat (1837)
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