George Sand Quotes

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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.

George Sand
Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

George Sand
The misanthropist is to be pitied when his despair proceeds from an ardent love for the good, the beautiful, and the true.

George Sand
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.

George Sand
A woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

George Sand
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.

George Sand
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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When a woman invokes her reason, it is a sure sign that she will listen to her heart.

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The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

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The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

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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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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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Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer rely on chance.

George Sand
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.

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

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Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

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

George Sand
Living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions — no, one shouldn't do it.

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My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse — I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

George Sand
There are few souls who are so vigorously organized as to be able to maintain themselves in the calm of a strong resolve: all honest consciences are capable of the generosity of a day, but almost all succumb the next morning under the effort of the sacrifice.

George Sand