You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even… — George Sand Copy Share Image
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it. — George Sand Copy Share Image
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives… — George Sand Copy Share Image
To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of… — 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 Image
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 Image
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary. — George Sand Copy Share Image
... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot. — George Sand Copy Share Image
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity. — George Sand Copy Share Image
Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable. — George Sand Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. (La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie.)” — George Sand Copy Share Image
