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• Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

  George Sand

  Birthday, Soul, Age

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• Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

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  Believe, Men, Justice

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• I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

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  Upset, Mind, Succeed

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

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• 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.

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  Romantic Love, Long, Darkness

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• When they are among us cats are angels

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  Cat, Angel, Pet

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• 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.

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  Doe, World, Matter

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• It is extraordinary how music sends one back into memories of the past.

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  Memories, Past, Past Memories

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• I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't slough off.

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  Believe, Heart, Character

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• nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.

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  Sweet, Nature, Stars

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• 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.

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  Hands, Ties, Add

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• 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.

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  Fighting, Effort, Causes

  George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

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• Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

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  Vanity, Vices, Slave

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• Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

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  Happiness, Lying, Consciousness

  Handsome Lawrence ch. 3 (1872)

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• I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

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  Country, Paris, Profound

  George Sand (2009). “The George Sand-gustave Flaubert Letters: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• ... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.

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  Flower, Love Is, Feet

  George Sand, George Burnham Ives, Mary Webb Artois, J. Alfred Burgan “The Masterpieces of George Sand: She and he, and Lavinia; with memoir by J. A. Burgan”

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• The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

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  Sublime, Storm, Genius

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• Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

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  Novel, Happens

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

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• ... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

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  Thinking, Misunderstood, Able

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

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• 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.

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  Lying, Kissing, Hands

  Letter (17 June 1837) in "The Intimate Journal of George Sand" translated and edited by Marie Jenney Howe, 1929.

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

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  Exercise, Brain, Tools

  George Sand (1991). “Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand”, p.595, SUNY Press

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• Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.

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  Helping Others, Humanity, Trying

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (2015). “The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors”, p.157, e-artnow

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• I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

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  Quality, Noble, Virtue

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• I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent.

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  Believe, Indifferent

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

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  Life, Inspirational Life, Writing

  "Metella". Ch. 1. Book by George Sand, 1833.

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