George Sand - Life Quotes

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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm; it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

George Sand
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

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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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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

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Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.

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

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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.

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The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

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Life is arid and terrible; repose is a chimera; prudence useless; reason itself serves only to dry up the heart. There is but one virtue — the eternal sacrifice of self.

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Life is a long ache which rarely sleeps and can never be cured.

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

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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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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

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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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One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

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Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

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