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George Sand Quotes

George Sand quotes

French Novelist, Writer July 1, 1804 – June 8, 1876

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George Sand quote: "No human creature can give orders to love."
No human creature can give orders to love. George Sand
George Sand quote: "We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw..."
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. George Sand
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. George Sand
George Sand quote: "He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a..."
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand
George Sand quote: "Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life."
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. George Sand
In times when evil comes because men misunderstand and hate one another, it is the mission of the artist to praise sweetness, confidence, and friendship, and so to remind men, hardened or discouraged, that pure morals, tender sentiments, and primitive justice still exist, or at least can exist, in this world. George Sand
George Sand quote: "Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age."
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. George Sand
Art for art’s sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for. George Sand
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for. George Sand
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most... George Sand
[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary. George Sand
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. George Sand
George Sand quote: "The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best,..."
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. George Sand
George Sand quote: "Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when..."
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile. George Sand
George Sand quote: "I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will..."
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy. George Sand

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