“One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.” — George Sand Copy Share Image
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling. — George Sand Copy Share
I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's… — George Sand Copy Share
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary. — George Sand Copy Share
... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot. — George Sand Copy Share
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity. — George Sand Copy Share
Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable. — George Sand Copy Share
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. — George Sand Copy Share
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that… — George Sand Copy Share
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that… — George Sand Copy Share
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a… — George Sand Copy Share
