George Sand quotes - page 2

Every historian discloses a new horizon. (George Sand)
Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.
George Sand
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
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
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows 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.
George Sand
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
George Sand
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect.
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
Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.
George Sand
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered. (George Sand)
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
George Sand
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 old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
George Sand
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
George Sand
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
George Sand
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
George Sand
God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.
George Sand
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
George Sand
There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide. (George Sand)
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.
George Sand
Art for the sake of art itself is an idle sentence. Art for the sake of truth, for the sake of what is beautiful and good - that is the creed I seek.
George Sand
It's not the first time I've noticed how much more power words have than ideas, particularly in France.
George Sand