George Sand Quotes - Page 7

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• It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years, and that, too with sur-prising strides. Brain-work comes as easily to the old as physical exertion to the child. One is moving, it is true, towards the end of life, but that end is now a goal, and not a reef in which the vessel may be dashed.

  George Sand

  Children, Moving, Thinking

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

  George Sand

  Work

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

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

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  Inspirational Love, Kindness, Treasure

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• ...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)

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  Humanity, Life Is, Vain

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• Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

  George Sand

  Ocean, Writing, Mean

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

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• Every historian discloses a new horizon.

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  New Horizons, Horizon, Historian

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.196, Cosimo, Inc.

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• ... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

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  Childhood, Triumph, Incomparable

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.165

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• 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.

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  Home, Men, Doors

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• If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.

  George Sand

  Love, Men, Law

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• 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.

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  Mother, Grief, Thinking

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• Humanity is outraged in me and with me.

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  Humanity, Outraged

  George Sand “Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand”, Library of Alexandria

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• ... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.

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  Progress, Treasure, Language

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.139

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• Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.

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  Silence, Simplicity, One Love

  George Sand (1991). “Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand”, p.284, SUNY Press

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• I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

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  Love, Lying, Believe

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• No religion can be built on force.

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  Women, Religion, Force

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• No one makes a revolution by himself.

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  Revolution

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.7

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

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  May, Anticipation, Lost

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• Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

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  Time, Nuts, Driven

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• We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.

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  Writing, Cutting, Liberty

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.111, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

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  Stupid, Folks, Publishers

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• Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

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  Punishment, Misery, Prosperity

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.13

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• a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

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  Half, Heroic

  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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• 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.

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  Stupid, Doubt, World

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• There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

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  Sacrifice, Self, Virtue

  George Sand (1847). “Jacques”, p.133

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• The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

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  Jealousy, Jealous, Being Jealous

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