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Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
George Sand
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George Sand
Age: 71 †
Born: 1804
Born: June 1
Died: 1876
Died: May 8
Composer
Diarist
Feminist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Salonnière
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Paris
France
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The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!
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No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.
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Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?
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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.
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I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.
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Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.
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Life is a slate where all our sins are written from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.
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