George Sand Quotes

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No human creature can give orders to love.

George Sand
Liszt said to me to-day that God alone deserves to be loved. It may be true, but when one has loved a man it is very difficult to love God. It is so different.

George Sand
Nowadays enthusiasm is accounted folly; truth, cynicism; dissimulation, self-control; stiffness of manners, dignity; deception, cleverness; hypocrisy, decency; selfishness, economy; freedom of thought, effrontery; and superstition, the prop of human morals. What progress in language!

George Sand
It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.

George Sand
The greatest evidence of demoralization is the respect paid to wealth.

George Sand
Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

George Sand
The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.

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Life is as a slate where all our sins are written: from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it, in order to begin to sin anew.

George Sand
As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.

George Sand
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.

George Sand
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.

George Sand
Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

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

George Sand
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.

George Sand
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

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

George Sand
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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The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

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

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

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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.

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

George Sand
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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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.

George Sand
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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