we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop. 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 matterdoeworld The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine. George Sand passiondivinecapacity 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 upsetsucceedmind I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent. George Sand indifferentbelieve 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 ableintellectualself Lying, like license, has its degrees. George Sand licensedegreeslying 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 icedarknessworld 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 passiontaskswriting Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. George Sand strengthmotivationalinspirational Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. George Sand refugeearthheaven 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 parisprofoundcountry The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world George Sand loversprayerworld 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-lovefaithwant Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it. George Sand young-lovedangerneeds 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 blamelosingfeelings Years do not always make age. George Sand ageyears 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 tiesaddhands Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy. George Sand sorrowknowsjoy 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 lawhearttwo Admiration and familiarity are strangers. George Sand aeroplanesadmirationstranger
