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The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

George Sand

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George Sand
Age: 71 †
Born: 1804
Born: June 1
Died: 1876
Died: May 8
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faith is like love when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.
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I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.
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Humanity is outraged in me and with me.
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To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
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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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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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Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.
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I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
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Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.
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... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.
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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 thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.
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