Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
George Sand
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
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.
George Sand
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
George Sand
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
George Sand
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.
George Sand
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
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
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?
George Sand
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
George Sand
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
George Sand
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
George Sand
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
George Sand
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
George Sand
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
George Sand
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand
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Type:
Novelist
Date of Birth:
1804-07-01
Year of Death:
1876
Nationality:
French |
