George Sand Quotes

• The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

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  Tags in Authorship, Violent

• Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

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  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Simplicity

• 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.

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  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Moment

• Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

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  Tags in Vanity

• The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

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  Tags in Prayers, Lover, Imperious

• The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

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  Tags in Artist, Vocation

• 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

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  Tags in Earth, Kings

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

  George Sand

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Enthusiasm

• One changes from day to day, and… after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself

• One approaches the journey’s end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

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  Tags in Journey, Approach

• No human creature can give orders to love.

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  Tags in Human, Creature

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

  George Sand

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Among, People
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  There is one happiness in life. Love and be loved.

  George Sand

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Happiness

• Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

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  Tags in Women

• Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

  George Sand

  Topics in Work

• Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

  George Sand

  Topics in Age, Funny

• If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: Take two aspirin and Keep away from children.

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  Topics in Advice

• Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

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  Topics in Life

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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