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Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?
George Sand
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George Sand
Age: 71 †
Born: 1804
Born: June 1
Died: 1876
Died: May 8
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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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Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.
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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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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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Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
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A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.
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