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George Sand
French
Novelist
About the author
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Heart
#Reason
#Regret
#Suffering
#Struggle
#Joy
#Shame
#Blush
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#End
#Goal
#Journey
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Strangers
#Admiration
#Familiarity
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Charity
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Life
#Love
#May
#Happiness
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
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,
French
Novelist
#Life
#Words
#Faith
#Argument
#Treasure
#Excitement
#Magnificence
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Regret
#Kindness
#Treasure
#Hesitation
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Life
#Poetry
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Will
#Nature
#Enthusiasm
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Earth
#Kings
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Life
#Love
#People
#Happiness
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Life
No human creature can give orders to love.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Love
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Years
#Day
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.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Humanity
#Revolution
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#World
#Experience
#Effort
#Simplicity
#Genius
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Heart
#Light
#Vocation
#Artist
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Eye
#Eyes
#Soul
#Body
#Beauty
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#World
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Trade
#Obsession
#Authorship
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Life
#Love
#Happiness
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Right
#Old
#Age
#Soul
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Reason
#Vanity
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Life
#Fire
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Love
#Earth
#Women
#Heaven
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand,
French
Novelist
#Work
#Strength
#Man
#Pleasure
#Punishment
#Reward