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27 quotes by George Sand

French literature by category French literary history Medieval Renaissance 17th 18th 19th 20th century Contemporary French writers Chronological list Writers by category Essayists Novelists Playwrights Poets Short story writers Portals France French language Literature French/Francophone literature v t e Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin (French: [amɑ tin lysil oʁɔʁ dypɛ ]; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pseudonym...
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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

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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.

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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.

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

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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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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

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Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

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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... →

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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... →

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Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

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

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