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Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.
George Sand
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George Sand
Age: 71 †
Born: 1804
Born: June 1
Died: 1876
Died: May 8
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And I refused to make any sacrifices for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.
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Experience is always a trustworthy guide it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
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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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A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
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Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.
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Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.
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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
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I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
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Weeds are omnipresent errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.
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God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.
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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 is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.
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Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
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The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
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living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.
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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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To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.
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Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing for its members themselves are moribund.
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There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.
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