Quotes from George Sand


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


One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.


Every historian discloses a new horizon.


No human creature can give orders to love.


Admiration and familiarity are strangers.


Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.


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 our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.


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


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


The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.


No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.


I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.


The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.


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


There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.


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


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


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


He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.


Vanity is the quicksand of reason.