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Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

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George Sand
Age: 71 †
Born: 1804
Born: June 1
Died: 1876
Died: May 8
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O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.
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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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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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... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.
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A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.
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Nature distributes her favors unequally.
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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
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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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a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.
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We must love stupid people better than ourselves are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
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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.
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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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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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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
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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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Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
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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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[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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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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