George Sand Quotes & Sayings
27 most famous George Sand quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was a French novelist who passed away on 8 June, 1876.
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
“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.”
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
“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?”
“Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.”
“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”
“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 artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”
“Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.”
“We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.”
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