George Sand Quotes

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• Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate…
• One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of…
• It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years,…
• A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner.…
• Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.
• Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.
• Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us…
• I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek…
• The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes...
• I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
• If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated…
• Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
• Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
• It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring…
• To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
• Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.
• Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life…
• Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
• I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a…
• The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

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