George Sand Quotes

• 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

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

  George Sand

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Happiness, Only

• 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

• 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

• Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vanity

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

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authorship, Violent

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

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Prayers, Lover, Imperious

• 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

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Moment

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

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Artist, Vocation

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

  George Sand

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Simplicity

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

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself

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

  George Sand

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Journey, Approach

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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