The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
—George Sand
Topics: Writing, Authors & Writing, Writers
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
—George Sand
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 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
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one’s eyes.
—George Sand
Topics: Nature
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
There is only one happiness in life—to love and be loved.
—George Sand
A man loved by a beautiful and virtuous woman, carries with him a talisman that renders him invulnerable; every one feels that such a one’s life has a higher value than that of others.
—George Sand
Topics: Love
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
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
—George Sand
Topics: Change
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: Remorse, Disappointment, Kindness, Regret
There is but one virtue—the eternal sacrifice of self.
—George Sand
Topics: Self-Discovery
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
The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.
—George Sand
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
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
—George Sand
Topics: One liners, Vanity
Work is not man’s punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.
—George Sand
Topics: Work
No religion can be built on force.
—George Sand
Topics: Religion
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: Revolution, Revolutions, Revolutionaries
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
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
—George Sand
Topics: Prayer
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
—George Sand
Topics: Charity
There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide.
—George Sand
Topics: Guilt
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.
—George Sand
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
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: Religion, Remorse, Regret, Disappointment
It is high time that we had lights
that are not incendiary torches.
—George Sand
Topics: Wisdom
We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
—George Sand
Topics: Ambition
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