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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.
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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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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.
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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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The world takes, from even the most candid heart, the freshness of faith and generosity.
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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.
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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.
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Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect.
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Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.
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Revolutions... have put one half of France in mourning for the other.
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I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing — the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.
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There is among men such intense affectation that they often boast of defects which they have not, more willingly than of qualities which they have.
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Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?
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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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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
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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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