George Sand Quotes - Page 2

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.

The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine.

fretting at trouble only doubles it.

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.

All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.

You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.

Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.

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.

It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.

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

Years do not always make age.

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.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

honesty dies in selling itself.

I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.

We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?

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.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

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.

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

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

Not to love is to cease to live.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

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?