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Our work can never be better than we are ourselves. — George Sand

Faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it. — George Sand

The lessons of experience are always learned too late. — George Sand

Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it. — George Sand

We must have a passion in life. — George Sand

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves. — George Sand

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse
I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me. — George Sand

A woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves. — George Sand

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best. — George Sand

Where love is absent there can be no woman. — George Sand

It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past ... — George Sand

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views. — George Sand

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one. — George Sand

To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self. — George Sand

Masterpieces are only lucky attempts. — George Sand

No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood. — George Sand

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop. — George Sand

As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy — George Mackay Brown

Sand dogs must eat and feed their pups. — George R R Martin

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches. — George Sand

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. — George Sand

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. — George Sand

No religion can be built on force. — George Sand

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. — George Sand

What is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph? — George Sand

I'm not sure that there's anything more horrible than staying in a furnished room in Paris, especially — George Sand

To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many! — George Sand

And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim. — George Sand

Nature distributes her favors unequally. — George Sand

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud. — George Sand

I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion. — George Sand

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties ... — George Sand

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart. — George Sand

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts. — George Sand

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. — George Sand

Between genius and madness there is often not the thickness of a hair. — George Sand

Not to love is to cease to live. — George Sand

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

Almost all novels are love stories. — George Sand

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand! — George Whitefield

Gossiping is the plague of little towns. — George Sand

I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent. — George Sand

A woman's heart has no wrinkles. — George Sand

It is love, not faith, that moves mountains. — George Sand

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

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again. — George Sand

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. — George Sand

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy. — George Sand

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there! — George Sand

The constant winds of petty appetite dissipate the power of response. — George Sand

Love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot. — George Sand

Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it. — George Sand

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand! — George Whitefield

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. — George Sand

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become! — George Sand

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society. — George Sand

Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure ... true kindness. — George Sand

Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life. — George Sand

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author. — George Sand

You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking. — George Sand

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide. — George Sand

Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything. — George Sand

No human creature can give orders to love. — George Sand

When they are among us cats are angels — George Sand

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies. — George Sand

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. — George Sand

Then she had doubts about the reality of her situation and wondered if her imminent departure was not the illusion of a dream. — George Sand

You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder ... — George Sand

The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe. — George Sand

As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again. — George Sand

A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity. — George Sand

There is but on virtue
the eternal sacrifice of self. — George Sand

Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art. — George Sand

If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both. — George Sand

One changes from day to day, and ... after a few years have passed one has completely altered. — George Sand

[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary. — George Sand

Fretting at trouble only doubles it. — George Sand

Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness. — George Sand

A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images. — George Sand

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone. — George Bernard Shaw

Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship. — George Sand

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes ... — George Sand

Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy. — George Sand

I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. — Juliette Binoche

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile. — George Sand

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. — George Sand

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm. — George Sand

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. — George Sand

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. — George Sand

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

Years do not always make age. — George Sand

When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you ... — George Sand

We have now all sorts of good reasons for accepting life, quite as good as those that had made us reject it the previous week. — George Sand

Weak people live in perpetual fear and foreboding. — George Sand

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle. — George Sand

At the very time I should speak out I feel more than ever the impossibility of doing so. — George Sand

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself — George Sand

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts. — George Carman

We do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop. — George Sand

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance. — George Sand