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Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.
George Sand
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George Sand
Age: 71 †
Born: 1804
Born: June 1
Died: 1876
Died: May 8
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Feminist
Journalist
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Salonnière
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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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Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
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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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A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.
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Humanity is outraged in me and with me.
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You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
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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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Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.
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I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.
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The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.
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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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The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.
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It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.
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I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent.
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Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.
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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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