Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of… — 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
... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties… — George Sand Copy Share Image
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found… — George Sand Copy Share Image
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with… — George Sand Copy Share Image
One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form… — George Sand Copy Share Image
You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking. — George Sand Copy Share Image
The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes… — 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