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Life is a slate where all our sins are written from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

George Sand

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George Sand
Age: 71 †
Born: 1804
Born: June 1
Died: 1876
Died: May 8
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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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To be made evident, truth must be sought for for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!
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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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