George Sand Quotes

Biography: George Sand, known for her prolific writing, was a French novelist and... more Biography: George Sand, known for her prolific writing, was a French novelist and memoirist. Born as Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin in 1804, she adopted her pseudonym to gain acceptance in the male-dominated literary world. Her works, including "Indiana" and "La Mare au Diable," often explored themes of romantic idealism and social justice. less

"The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.""I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill can diminish""Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction""I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the lips, but also the failure to tell the whole truth, thus entailing deception""We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire""Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth""The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other souls""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""Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views""Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age""The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world""Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life""Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius""The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart""Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it""Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure""One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered""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 waste the time in which we can rediscover it""Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness""There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved"

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