Quotes from George Sand

L'alouette, qui chantait en montant vers les cieux, lui semblait être la voix de son cur rendant grâce à la Providence.

Le mal du pays fait cet effet-là à tout le monde : il transforme les objets de nos souvenirs en idéalités poétiques, dont les qualités grandissent à nos yeux, tandis que les défauts s'adoucissent toujours avec le temps et l'absence, et vont jusqu'à s'effacer dans notre imagination.

Happiness, so they say, makes one selfish... Alas! this happiness that is in store for some to the detriment of others must make one so, indeed. O my God! Shared happiness, that which one would find by working for the happiness of one's fellow men, would make man as great as his destiny on earth, as good as yourself!

J'ai peine à croire qu'en perdant ceux qu'on aime on conserve son âme entière.

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

Tout concourt à I'histoire, tout est I'histoire, meme les romans qui semblent ne se rattacher en rien aux situations politiques qui les voient eclore.

I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.

It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.

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.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

Not to love is to cease to live.

Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.

I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.

Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same.

No human creature can give orders to love.

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.

Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.

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!