We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

George Sand

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There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

George Sand


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

George Sand


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¡Dejadme escapar de la mentirosa y criminal ilusión de la felicidad!
Dadme trabajo, cansancio, dolor y entusiasmo.

George Sand

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One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.

George Sand

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Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

George Sand

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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

(Il n'y a qu'un bonheur dans la vie, c'est d'aimer et d'être aimé.)

George Sand

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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

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Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

George Sand

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