“I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.”
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Famous George Sand Quotes
Source: The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors
“Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.”
“The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.”
“Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.”
“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.”
Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).
“To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.”
“Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.”
Source: The George Sand-gustave Flaubert Letters: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition
“The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.”
“A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.”
“When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...”
Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand
“I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.”
“The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world”
“Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.”
“Not to love is to cease to live.”
Source: The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors
“Nature distributes her favors unequally.”
Source: The Intimate Journal of George Sand
“Years do not always make age.”
Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).
Source: The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors
Source: ... Fanchon the Cricket: Or Fadette
“Humanity is outraged in me and with me.”
Source: Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand
“No one makes a revolution by himself.”
Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).
Source: Letters of George Sand
“Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.”