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George Sand [1804-1876] French

Rank: 101
Novelist

Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and memoirist. 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.

Happiness, Love, Age, Art, Beauty, Experience, Faith, Life, Poetry, Strength, Women, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.	Happiness, Life, Love	45
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.	Beauty	102
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.	Happiness, Love	103
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.		104
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.	Experience	105
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.		106
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.	Poetry	107
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.	Women	108
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?		109
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.	Age	110
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.		111
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.		112
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.		113
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.	Art	114
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.	Strength, Work	115
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.	Happiness	116
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.		117
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.		118
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.		119
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.	Faith	120
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.		121
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.		122
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.		123
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.		124
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.		125
No human creature can give orders to love.		126
Every historian discloses a new horizon.		201

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