George Sand Quotes

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

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• 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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  Happiness, Dream, Simple

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• 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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  Kindness, Regret, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.

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  Freedom, Thinking, Silence

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• There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.

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  Sex, Men, Mind

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Soul, Age

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• The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

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  Heart, Intellect

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• Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Simplicity

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.355, Cosimo, Inc.

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• All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.

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  Wise, Exercise, Men

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

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  Angel, Views, Surprise

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• A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.

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  Children, Men, Competition

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

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• We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

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  Suicide, Witty, Book

  Mauprat ch. 11 (1837)

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• 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?

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  Regret, Struggle, Heart

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• If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

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  Stupid, People, Mind

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.114, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

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  Funny, Wisdom, Mistake

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• The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

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  Art, Light, Vocation

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• Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

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  Love, Enthusiasm, Reverence

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• Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.

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  Beautiful, Art, Essence

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• 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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  Believe, Angel, Men

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• We must have a passion in life.

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  Passion

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.108, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.

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  Moving, Mountain, Move Mountains

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• Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

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  Flower, Butterfly, Feelings

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• 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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  Stupid, Ambition, People

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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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  Beautiful, Art, Phrases

  Letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean, 1872

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• Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

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  Lying, Experience, May

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

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