Top 100 George Sand Quotes
#1. To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!
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#2. I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
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#3. 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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#4. Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure ... true kindness.
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#5. Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.
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#6. When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you ...
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#7. Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.
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#8. A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.
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#9. The contemplation of Mont Blanc's unchanging summits for three or four days last month, the sight of that eternal snow, immaculate, sublime in its whiteness and calm, was enough to restore to my soul a serenity it had not known for a long time.
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#10. Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.
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#11. Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
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#12. You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.
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#13. A woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.
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#14. What is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?
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#15. Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.
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#16. The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!
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#17. 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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#18. The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes ...
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#19. To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
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#20. If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
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#21. Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.
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#22. It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past ...
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#24. When we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.
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#26. Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.
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#27. Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.
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#28. Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.
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#29. Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.
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#30. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
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#31. The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
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#32. Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.
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#33. I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.
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#34. Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
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#35. 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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#36. The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
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#37. The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.
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#38. You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
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#39. At the very time I should speak out I feel more than ever the impossibility of doing so.
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#40. Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
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#41. As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.
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#42. Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.
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#43. You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.
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#44. The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
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#45. Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
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#46. Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.
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#47. I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent.
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#48. Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.
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#49. Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.
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#50. Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art.
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#51. The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine
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#52. He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
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#53. Let us leave political questions to be decided by the powers concerned," Sir Ralph would say, "as we have adopted a form of government which forbids us to discuss our interests ourselves. If a nation is responsible for the faults of its legislature, what one can you find that is guiltier than yours?
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#54. One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of 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. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.
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#55. Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.
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#56. The constant winds of petty appetite dissipate the power of response.
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#57. There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.
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#59. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being ...
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#60. Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.
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#61. The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
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#62. I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
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#63. Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.
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#64. No human creature can give orders to love.
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
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#68. No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
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#69. When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.
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#70. Weak people live in perpetual fear and foreboding.
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#73. I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.
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#74. The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.
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#75. Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.
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#76. Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
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#77. 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 whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.
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#78. Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.
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#80. We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids ...
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#81. There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
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#82. The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
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#83. The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
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#84. It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.
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#85. God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.
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#86. Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream.
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#87. A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
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#88. 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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#89. One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
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#90. A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.
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#91. The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.
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#92. 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.
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#93. Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
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#94. Where love is absent there can be no woman.
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#95. When they are among us cats are angels
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#96. No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.
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#97. I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.
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#99. 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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#100. Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.
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