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• Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

  George Sand

  Heaven, Earth, Refuge

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• we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

  George Sand

  Suffering, Cups, Drink

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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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.

  George Sand

  Heart, Law, Two

  George Sand, Jane Minot Sedgwick (1893). “Fadette (La Petite Fadette): Tr. from the French by Jane Minot Sedgwick, with an Etching by E.Abot”, Boston, Little, Brown [c1893]

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• living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.

  George Sand

  Self, Intellectual, Able

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

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• And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

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  Sacrifice, Mind, Earth

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

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  Joy, Sorrow, Knows

  "Jacques".

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• Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.

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  Sex, Serious, Creation

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• The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

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  Ungrateful, Feelings, Ignorant

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.

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  Winter, Twenties, Waste

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• Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

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  Inspirational, Vanity, Reason

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• 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

  Hands, Knowing, Humanity

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.7

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• No human creature can give orders to love.

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  Order, Giving, Humans

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• The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.

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  Glory, Pipe, Smoke

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

  George Sand

  Stupid, Believe, Law

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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• I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

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  Enthusiasm, Chill

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• Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

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  Flower, Oblivion, Graves

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• One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

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  Death, Journey, Goal

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• Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

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  Littles, Towns, Plague

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.121, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

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  Art, Nature, Mind

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• Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.

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  Weakness, Wickedness

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• O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.

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  Heart, Love Is, Antidote

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

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  Leadership, Light, Torches

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.342, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nature distributes her favors unequally.

  George Sand

  Nature, Favors, Ability

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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• Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

  George Sand

  Stars, Lakes, Clouds

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (2015). “The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors”, p.218, e-artnow

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• It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.

  George Sand

  Jealous, Doubt, The End Of The Day

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.17

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