George Sand quotes

There is only one happiness in life to love and to be loved. (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
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
George Sand
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
George Sand
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
George Sand
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
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
The intellect seeks, the heart finds.
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
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
George Sand
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth. (George Sand)
The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
George Sand
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
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.
George Sand
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
George Sand
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
George Sand
Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.
George Sand
Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.
George Sand
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
George Sand
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
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. (George Sand)
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
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
George Sand
No human creature can give orders to love.
George Sand
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.
George Sand