George Sand Quotes

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  • Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.

  • [Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

  • Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

  • Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

  • It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.

  • I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.

  • I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

  • 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.

    Letter (17 June 1837) in "The Intimate Journal of George Sand" translated and edited by Marie Jenney Howe, 1929.
  • Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

  • Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we find that person, life suddenly explodes and darkness turns into a riot of colour. We're always looking for someone, what we need to remember is that someone is out there looking for us too.

  • The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.

    George Sand (1991). “Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand”, p.595, SUNY Press
  • Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

    George Sand “Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand”, Library of Alexandria
  • And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.

  • When they are among us cats are angels

  • Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.

  • The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

  • One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

  • The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

    George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.140, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.

  • Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

    Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press
  • When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.

    George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press
  • The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

  • Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.

    George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press
  • We must have a passion in life.

    George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.108, Cosimo, Inc.
  • 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 (1915). “... Fanchon the Cricket: Or Fadette”
  • The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

  • Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

  • Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

    George Sand (2000). “Indiana”, p.145, Chicago Review Press
  • I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

    Noble  
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