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• The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

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  Writing, Obsession, Violent

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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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• 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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  Heart, Men, Giving

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• 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.

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  Life, Intellectual, Flipping A Coin

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• Party politics is now a real farce.

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  Real, Party, Farce

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.325, Cosimo, Inc.

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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.

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  Jealous, Doubt, The End Of The Day

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

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

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  Suffering, Cups, Drink

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

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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.

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  Self, Intellectual, Able

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

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• No human creature can give orders to love.

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  Order, Giving, Humans

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• A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.

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  Sorrow, Cigar, Hours

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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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• 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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• 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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• Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

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  Life Is, Sin, Repentance

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• The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

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  Vow, Marriage Vows, Absurdity

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• The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

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  Nature, Lying, Eye

  Letter to Juliette Lambert-Adam, April 7, 1868.

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• Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

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  Inspirational, Vanity, Reason

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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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• 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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  Hands, Knowing, Humanity

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

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• The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

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  Perfect, Cigar, Elegance

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• Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.

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  Inspirational Love, Kindness, Treasure

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• There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

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  Secret, Prudes, Littles

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• 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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  Obstacles, Made, Evident

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