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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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• 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.

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  Kings, Noble, Earth

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.25

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• The mind has no sex.

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  Sex, Mind

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.71, Cosimo, Inc.

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

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  Stupid, Believe, Law

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

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

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  Enthusiasm, Chill

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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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• 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.

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  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.

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  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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• Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.

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  Dream, Thinking, Years

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

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• Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

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  Queens, Powerful, Writing

  George Sand “Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand”, Library of Alexandria

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• ... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

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  Artist, Fishing, Goal

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Alphonse Jacobs (1993). “Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence”, Vintage

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• Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

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  Unrequited Love, Love Is, Errors

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• Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.

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  Country, Art, Lying

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• God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

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  Heart, Fighting, Sorrow

  George Sand (1915). “... Fanchon the Cricket: Or Fadette”

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• A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

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  Wisdom, Wall, Men

  "Handsome Lawrence", Chapter II in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 398), 1922.

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• [Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

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  May, Anticipation, Lost

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• No religion can be built on force.

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  Women, Religion, Force

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• almost all novels are love stories.

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  Stories, Love Story, Novel

  George Sand (1991). “Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand”, p.922, SUNY Press

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• The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

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  Book, Results, Publication

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.242, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years, and that, too with sur-prising strides. Brain-work comes as easily to the old as physical exertion to the child. One is moving, it is true, towards the end of life, but that end is now a goal, and not a reef in which the vessel may be dashed.

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  Children, Moving, Thinking

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• One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

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  Thinking, May, Honey

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.38

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