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Art belongs to all times and to all countries its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.

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George Sand
Age: 71 †
Born: 1804
Born: June 1
Died: 1876
Died: May 8
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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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Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.
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We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
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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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[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!
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All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
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Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself
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The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
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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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Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.
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To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
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O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.
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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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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
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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.
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The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.
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