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Famous George Sand Quotes
Source: Letters of George Sand
“honesty dies in selling itself.”
Source: The Masterpieces of George Sand: Mauprat
“The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!”
Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand
Source: Letters of George Sand
“It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.”
Source: Letters of George Sand
“As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.”
Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand
Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand
“It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.”
“Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.”
“almost all novels are love stories.”
Source: Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand
“We must have a passion in life.”
Source: Letters of George Sand
Source: Letters of George Sand
“Party politics is now a real farce.”
Source: Letters of George Sand
Source: Letters of George Sand
Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand
“Gossiping is the plague of little towns.”
Source: Letters of George Sand
Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand
“we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.”
Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand
Source: The Masterpieces of George Sand: She and he, and Lavinia; with memoir by J. A. Burgan
“Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.”
Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand
“fretting at trouble only doubles it.”
Source: Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence
“a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.”
Source: The Masterpieces of George Sand: She and he, and Lavinia; with memoir by J. A. Burgan
“Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.”
Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand
“The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.”
Source: Letters of George Sand
“... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?”
Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).
Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).
Source: Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand
“... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.”
Source: The Masterpieces of George Sand: She and he, and Lavinia; with memoir by J. A. Burgan
“Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.”
Source: Letters of George Sand
Source: Letters of George Sand
“Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.”
Source: Letters of George Sand
Source: Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence