George Sand Short Quotes

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Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

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No human creature can give orders to love.

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The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

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Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

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Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.

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

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The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

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I have a horror of vanity; it is the quicksand of reason.

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

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Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

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

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

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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

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It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.

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Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect.

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

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Obstacles usually stimulate passion, but sometimes they kill it.

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

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You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

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

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It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

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

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Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

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

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Revolutions... have put one half of France in mourning for the other.

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The world does not understand that we can prefer anything else to it.

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Absence is a cosmetic that softens or disguises the greatest defects.

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

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

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One changes from day to day... every few years one becomes a new being.

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