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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.

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
Powerful, Writing, Men
George Sand (2000). “Indiana”, p.158, OUP Oxford

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

George Sand
Friendship, Real, Writing
Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Alphonse Jacobs (1993). “Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence”, Vintage

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

George Sand
Life, Inspirational Life, Writing
"Metella". Ch. 1. Book by George Sand, 1833.

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

George Sand
Passion, Writing, Tasks
Letter to Jules Boucoiran, March 4, 1831.

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

George Sand
Writing, Obsession, Violent

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 powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

George Sand
Queens, Powerful, Writing
George Sand “Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand”, Library of Alexandria

Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.

George Sand
Ocean, Writing, Mean
George Sand (1977). “The Intimate Journal of George Sand”, Chicago Review Press

We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.

George Sand
Writing, Cutting, Liberty
George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.111, Cosimo, Inc.

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