Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand
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Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand
“Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.”
“Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.”
“I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.”
“Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.”
Source: The Country Waif
“Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.”
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
Source: Letters of George Sand
“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”
“Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”
“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”
“We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.”
Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).
“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”
Source: Handsome Lawrence: A Sequel to A Rolling Stone
“The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.”
“Every historian discloses a new horizon.”
Source: Letters of George Sand
“I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.”
“One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.”
“One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.”
Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).
“There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.”
“Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect”
Source: Indiana
Source: Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand
“Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.”
Source: Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand
Source: Indiana
Source: Fadette (La Petite Fadette): Tr. from the French by Jane Minot Sedgwick, with an Etching by E.Abot
Source: ... Fanchon the Cricket: Or Fadette