George Sand Quotes - Page 2

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• All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.

  George Sand

  Wise, Exercise, Men

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• It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.

  George Sand

  Moving, Mountain, Move Mountains

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• Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

  George Sand

  Beautiful, Art, Phrases

  Letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean, 1872

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• The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

  George Sand

  Experience, Too Late, Lessons

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Alphonse Jacobs (1993). “Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence”, Vintage

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• You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

  George Sand

  Friendship, Real, Writing

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Alphonse Jacobs (1993). “Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence”, Vintage

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• The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

  George Sand

  Passion, Divine, Capacity

  "The Intimate Journal of George Sand".

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• To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.

  George Sand

  Forgiveness, Self, Sublime

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• Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.

  George Sand

  Fall, Order, Feet

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• The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

  George Sand

  Powerful, Writing, Men

  George Sand (2000). “Indiana”, p.158, OUP Oxford

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• Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.

  George Sand

  Lucky, Masterpiece

  George Sand (1930). “The Country Waif”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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

  George Sand

  Aggravation, Charity, Philanthropy Giving

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• I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.

  George Sand

  Believe, Angel, Men

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• fretting at trouble only doubles it.

  George Sand

  Trouble, Fretting

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Alphonse Jacobs (1993). “Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence”, Vintage

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• We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

  George Sand

  Stupid, Ambition, People

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.

  George Sand

  Friends, Ignored, Neglected

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• Years do not always make age.

  George Sand

  Years, Age

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.93

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• Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.

  George Sand

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

  George Sand

  Happiness, Happy, People

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• honesty dies in selling itself.

  George Sand

  Honesty, Selling, Dies

  George Sand, George Burnham Ives, Mary Webb Artois, J. Alfred Burgan “The Masterpieces of George Sand: Mauprat”

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• 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.

  George Sand

  Philosophy, Understanding, Style

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• faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

  George Sand

  Faith, Like Love, Want

  George Sand (1979). “My life”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• 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

  Feelings, Losing, Blame

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• Not to love is to cease to live.

  George Sand

  Love Is, Cease

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (2015). “The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors”, p.150, e-artnow

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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, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

  George Sand

  Regret, Struggle, Heart

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• We must have a passion in life.

  George Sand

  Passion

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.108, Cosimo, Inc.

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