...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)

George Sand

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

George Sand

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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.

George Sand

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

George Sand

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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

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The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

George Sand

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There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.

George Sand

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Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

George Sand

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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

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

George Sand

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

George Sand

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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

George Sand

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

George Sand

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Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.

George Sand

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

George Sand

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Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

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All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.

George Sand

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Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

George Sand

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

George Sand

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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

George Sand

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

George Sand

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