George Sand - Love Quotes

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

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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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Love, bumping his head blindly against all the obstacles of civilization.

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

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

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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.

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No human creature can give orders to love.

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God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

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Love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.

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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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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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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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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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I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

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Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation which is one of the most passionate forms of love.

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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness — simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.

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If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.

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No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.

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Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.

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