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almost all novels are love stories.

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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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we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
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a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.
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No human creature can give orders to love.
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Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.
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Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
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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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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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There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.
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I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.
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Experience is always a trustworthy guide it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
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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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Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
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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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honesty dies in selling itself.
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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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Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.
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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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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
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