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It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.
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All of us who have time and money to spare, travel — that is to say, we flee; since surely it is not so much a question of travelling as of getting away? Which of us has not some sorrow to dull, or some yoke to cast off?
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Nature distributes her favors unequally. To some of her creatures she gives intelligence, to others beauty.
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If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
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Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.
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There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.
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He talked to her of himself, always of himself. Why not? He talked so well!
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In the stormy days of our youth, we imagine that solitude is a sure refuge from the assaults of life, a certain balm for the wounds of battle. This is a serious mistake, and experience teaches us that, if we cannot live in peace with our fellow-men, neither romantic raptures nor aesthetic enjoyment will ever fill the abyss gaping at the bottom of our hearts.
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Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.
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One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.
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We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.
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Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
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The misanthropist is to be pitied when his despair proceeds from an ardent love for the good, the beautiful, and the true.
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Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.
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The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.
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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
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A woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.
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The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.
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Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.
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The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.
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We do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.
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Love might have consoled him by taking him by surprise; for that is the only way in which love does console. One cannot find it when one seeks it; it comes to us when we do not expect it.
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He who draws noble delights from the sentiment of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
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You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.
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What is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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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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