French - Novelist | July 1, 1804 - June 8, 1876
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
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Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
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The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
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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?
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No human creature can give orders to love.
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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
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