Quotes by George Sand

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Before we are artists, let's try to be people.

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The memory... the perfume of the soul.

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I believe that ambition is not evil and that success is not a crime... there are two kinds of ambition: one that always suffers and is satisfied with nothing, another that delights the soul and is satisfied with little.

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A love without deep respect and admiration is just friendship.

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He who is aware of his own innocence, unwittingly humiliates himself by justifying himself.

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The book has always been a counselor, a source of comfort, eloquent and calm, and I did not want to exhaust its qualities and saved them for more important situations.

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Everyone feels the need to be loved, this elevates him in his eyes; but people must be loved differently: one - with boundless kindness, another - with permanent harshness.

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Truth lives only in an open soul, and authority only on clean lips.

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You cannot change your own nature, you can only turn the various qualities of your character, even the defects, to the good; therein lies the great mystery and great task of education.

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Envious souls tend to hate people, because they take their faces, their happiness.

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Life is more like a novel than our novels are like life.

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The soul that has never suffered, cannot understand happiness!

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The paths that lead to art are full of thorns, but on them you can also pick beautiful flowers.

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You can explain to others why you married your husband, but you cannot convince yourself.

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He is wise who goes in step with his time, in step with society; and he who tends to go backwards... is a fool.

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A man who talks intelligently about love is not very much in love.

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Honesty dies when sold.

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Death is so repulsive that none of us can look upon its approach without horror.

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Discretion in love or friendship is a stupid caprice and, moreover, an act of selfishness that kills all feeling, first in ourselves, then in the person we love.

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Simplicity is the most difficult thing in the world; it is the final limit of experience and the final effort of genius.

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The domain of music is that of soul emotions. The purpose of music is to instill these emotions, itself drawing inspiration from them.

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Unrequited love is different from mutual love, as is the mistake of truth.

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He who is not loved is always a loner in a crowd.

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Our life is made of love, and not loving means not living.

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We can't take a single page out of our lives, but we can set the whole book on fire.

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We attract the misfortunes we pay too much attention to.

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There is only one happiness in life: that of loving and being loved.

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The truth is too simple; it is reached through something complicated.

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A loner is only the shadow of a man, and he who is not loved is alone everywhere.

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There is only one happiness in life: if you love and are loved back.

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Our despair when we lose a loved one often stems from our hidden self-love, and from cowardice at having to face the responsibilities caused by his departure. Some of this pain is legitimate, some is not, and you have to fight against it, no matter how natural it is.

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There is no ugly place for those who recognize the good and the beautiful in God's creations.

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It is very pleasant to be loved by a beautiful girl, but you will find that the friendship of an ugly girl is useful, because the ugly ones are selfless and do not know anger or hatred.

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Those who have the courage to contain their pain are better equipped against it than those who complain.

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Women's anger lasts longer than their grief.

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Slander always finds an ear to receive it and a tongue to pass it on.

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The mind searches, but the heart finds.

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Love, faith, mutual respect, if all these are not present in marriage, it is nothing but slavery, disgrace and despair.

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In order for women to love a man, they must also be loved passionately.

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With its shy childhood, first love can destroy the calculations of the broadest foresight.

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The clearness of the sky only affects us because sometimes we saw traces of that thunderstorm.

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Poetry is both mother and daughter of wisdom.

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Even the most unbelieving sophists would rather deny the existence of God than that he is the ideal and realization of all perfection, all knowledge, and all love. And how could perfection give life to evil, knowledge to lies, love to hatred and corruption? The existence of the devil is only a tale from the childhood of mankind, from the time when, in the face of the corruption and calamities of the natural world, the timid children of the earth believed that there were two gods, two creators and omnipotent spirits, one the source of all good, the other the source of all evil; two almost equal principles, since the rule of Iblis must last for countless centuries, and it will only end in terrible battles fought in the heights of the heavens.

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Equality is sacred, it is the will of the father of men, and it is the duty of men to try to realize it among themselves. When peoples still seriously adhered to the rites of their faith, the Lord's Supper was the only form of equality allowed by social laws. The poor and the weak found comfort in it and the promise of religion, which helped them endure their difficult days and hope for a better future for their descendants.

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A woman is the strongest when she armors herself with weakness.

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Love is not necessary in marriage, it is affection and tenderness; not a stroke of heaven, insomnia, jealousy, unreasonable suspicion, an unbearable desire to dominate and all those unhealthy and stupid things that your novels call love.

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He who is not loved is alone everywhere.

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An unattractive face increasingly loses its ability to please. The person who wears it, being indifferent to others, becomes indifferent to himself, his indifference shows on his face and repels the gaze of others more and more. Beauty, on the other hand, constantly observes, decorates, protects, observes, and perhaps we can also say that it projects itself in an imaginary mirror that is constantly floating in front of it. Ugliness forgets and abandons itself. But there are two kinds of ugliness: that which suffers and protests against the opinion of the outside world with the weapons of anger and envy: this is the only, true ugliness; the other, on the other hand, is pious and carefree, resigns himself to his fate, does not avoid or challenge judgment, and thus, if not to the eye, at least pleases the heart.

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You have many faults, but you also have the opportunity to overcome them; for you have abilities that neither education nor work can give; you have what neither bad advice nor bad examples can take away, the holy fire... the flag of the flame! This fire, alas, illuminates nothing, the flame remains unproductive... because I can see in your eyes, as I felt in your voice, that you do not know true art, you do not believe in the great masters, you do not respect great creations; you love glory, only glory, and that only for yourself.

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It is not the unrestrained debauchery, but the simple joy of living together that is most closely related to women.

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God does not want man to deny the feelings and consciousness of real life, and too often rise to the uncertain view of an ideal world. This kind of intoxication is followed by madness and tantrums as a punishment for pride and idleness.

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Death will pass between us, but it will only apparently separate us, only to unite us in eternity.

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Love gives strength to even the weakest being.

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The memory of true and present life shines in all of us, every time an embarrassing dream throws us into the world of imagination and madness. We struggle against the nightmares and terrors of the night, and meanwhile we feel that it is all just a nightmare, and we struggle to wake up; but it is as if a hostile power seizes me again and again to push me back into horrible helplessness, where I am besieged and tortured by more and more mournful images and more and more excruciating pains.

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Female vanity never forgives.

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Music tells the most mysterious and sublime things that the soul feels and dreams about. It expresses a higher order of ideas and feelings than the human word. It explores the infinite.

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Humanity has derived eternal value from the being of the Creator.

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There are two kinds of love, one is that of great souls, which is great and noble, and the other is that of ordinary souls, which only weak characters and limited minds can feel.