George Sand Quotes

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  There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

  George Sand

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Happiness, Only

• God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

  George Sand

  Topics in Friendship

• Art for art’s sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I search for.

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Truth is too simple; it must always be arrived at in a complicated manner.

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

• No human being can give orders to love.

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

• We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the entire book in the fire.

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The person who has used his emotions even a little is more anxious to please than to love.

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

• In France particularly, words reign over ideas.

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Love, knocking its blind forehead against all of civilization’s obstacles.

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

  George Sand

  Topics in Inspirational

• 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

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Happiness

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Faith, Enthusiasm

• Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Charity

• Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Admiration, Familiarity, Strangers

• 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

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Revolution

• Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself

• Every historian discloses a new horizon.

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Historian

• We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

  George Sand

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Ourselves

• 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

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in Self, Heart

George Sand (39)

Birth:	1st July, 1804
Death:	8th June, 1876
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Novelist

About

Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, best known by her pseudonym George Sand was born in Paris, France. She was a French novelist. She wrote several novels include: Indiana, Valentine, Lelia, Jacques, Valvèdre, Mauprat, Le Compagnon du Tour de France, Consuelo, A Winter in Majorca, Le Meunier d'Angibault, La Mare au Diable, François le Champi, La Petite Fadette, and Les Beaux Messieurs Bois-Doré. She is equally well known for her much publicized romantic affairs with a number of artists, including Polish-French composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin and the writer Alfred de Musset.

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