George Sand /Armandin Oror Luysi Dupen/ quotes Born: 07/01/1804 Died: 06/08/1876 Country: france

• There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. (George Sand) [happiness/life/love]
• 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? (George Sand) [joy/suffering/shame]
• The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. (George Sand) [more]
• We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. (George Sand) [life]
• You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing. (George Sand) [soul & body/society/power/willpower]
• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. (George Sand) [beauty/eyes/moment/soul & body]
• Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. (George Sand) [right/age]
• No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. (George Sand) [revolution]
• The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. (George Sand) [artist/light/human]
• Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. (George Sand) [life/novel/more/life]
• 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 more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity. (George Sand) [love/status/more/men]
• Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. (George Sand) [charity]
• Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. (George Sand) [life/people/love/happiness]
• No human creature can give orders to love. (George Sand) [human/give/love]
• I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. (George Sand) [lord/more]
• Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. (George Sand) [faith/enthusiasm/condition/treasure]
• There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved. (George Sand) [happiness/life/love]
• No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. (George Sand) [revolution]
• 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? (George Sand) [joy/suffering/shame]
• Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. (George Sand) [art/reality/truth]
• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. (George Sand) [beauty/eyes/moment/soul & body]
• The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. (George Sand) [trade/authorship]
• 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 more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity. (George Sand) [love/status/more/men]

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