There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
Love
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Quotes by George Sand
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Love
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.
Love
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
Wisdom
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
Success
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
Success
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
Life
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.
Life
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?
Love
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
Wisdom
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
Love
No human creature can give orders to love.
Love
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
Wisdom
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Life
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
Love
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
Life
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
Wisdom
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.
Wisdom
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
Wisdom
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
Life
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
Success
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
Wisdom
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
Wisdom
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
Wisdom
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