Quotes from George Sand

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

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.

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.

Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.

Nature alone can speak to our intelligence an imperishable language, never changing, because it remains within the bounds of eternal truth and of what is absolutely noble and beautiful.

When they are among us cats are angels

I would rather believe that God did not exist than believe that he was indifferent.

Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.

Humanity is outraged in me and with me.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

We must have a passion in life.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.