The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe. George Sand More Quotes by George Sand More Quotes From George Sand 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 women. George Sand matter doe world The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine. George Sand passion divine capacity I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail. George Sand upset succeed mind I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent. George Sand indifferent believe living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it. George Sand able intellectual self Lying, like license, has its degrees. George Sand license degrees lying Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund. George Sand ice darkness world 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 passion tasks writing Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. George Sand strength motivational inspirational Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. George Sand refuge earth heaven I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am. George Sand paris profound country The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world George Sand lovers prayer world faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it. George Sand like-love faith want Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it. George Sand young-love danger needs 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 blame losing feelings Years do not always make age. George Sand age years You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing. George Sand ties add hands Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy. George Sand sorrow knows joy God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other. George Sand law heart two Admiration and familiarity are strangers. George Sand aeroplanes admiration stranger
