Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
—George Sand
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.
—George Sand
Topics: Women
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one’s being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
—George Sand
Topics: Love
He who finds elevated and lofty pleasure in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he never composed a line of verse in his entire lifetime.
—George Sand
Topics: Poetry
It is high time that we had lights
that are not incendiary torches.
—George Sand
Topics: Wisdom
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
—George Sand
Topics: Prayer
There is but one virtue—the eternal sacrifice of self.
—George Sand
Topics: Self-Discovery
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: Kindness, Regret, Remorse, Disappointment
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: Beauty, Perception
Love is the virtue of women.
—George Sand
Topics: Love
Life is a long ache which rarely sleeps and can never be cured.
—George Sand
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
—George Sand
Topics: Charity
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
—George Sand
Topics: Art, Arts, Artists
Where love is absent, there can be no woman.
—George Sand
Topics: Women
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
—George Sand
Topics: Vanity, One liners
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
—George Sand
Topics: Change
There is only one happiness in life—to love and be loved.
—George Sand
No religion can be built on force.
—George Sand
Topics: Religion
There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide.
—George Sand
Topics: Guilt
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one’s talent, and one’s inner happiness.
—George Sand
Topics: Soul
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: Revolutionaries, Revolutions, Revolution
One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts—once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness—simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.
—George Sand
Topics: Happiness
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.
—George Sand
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: Faith, Excitement
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
Topics: Farming
Work is not man’s punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
—George Sand
Topics: Work
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one’s strength and one’s days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day’s work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.
—George Sand
Topics: Farming
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: Simplicity
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
—George Sand
Topics: One liners, Vanity
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: Regret, Remorse, Religion, Disappointment
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