George Sand Quotes
Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, baronne Dudevant, better known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and pioneer of feminism.
(1804 - 1876)
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Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
[Admiration]
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Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.
[Art]
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
[Art]
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Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
[Charity]
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Every historian discloses a new horizon.
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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.
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Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness; know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.
[Introspection]
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Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
[Happiness]
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
[Poetry]
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I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
[Writing]
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I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
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I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
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It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years, and that, too, with surprising strides.
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It's not the first time I've noticed how much more power words have than ideas, particularly in France.
[Words]
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Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
[Life]
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Life is a long ache which rarely sleeps and can never be cured.
[Life]
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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
[Life]
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Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.
[Art]
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No human creature can give orders to love.
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