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French writer
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
George Sand
No religion can be built on force.
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?
George Sand
No one makes a revolution by himself.
George Sand
Where love is absent there can be no woman.
George Sand
O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.
George Sand
Humanity is outraged in me and with me.
George Sand
No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.
George Sand
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.
George Sand
It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.
George Sand
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
George Sand
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.
George Sand
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
George Sand
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.
George Sand
Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.
George Sand
The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.
George Sand
The intellect seeks, the heart finds.
George Sand
Years do not always make age.
George Sand
Nature distributes her favors unequally.
George Sand
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.
George Sand
A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.
George Sand
The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.
George Sand
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.
George Sand
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.
George Sand
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.
George Sand
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.
George Sand
Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself
George Sand
When they are among us cats are angels
George Sand
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.
George Sand
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