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Letter "G" » George Sand Quotes
«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.»
Author: George Sand
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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.»
«The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.»
«It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.»
Author: George Sand
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«Every historian discloses a new horizon»
«No human creature can give orders to love»
Author: George Sand
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«Admiration and familiarity are strangers»
«I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy»
Author: George Sand
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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.»
«Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.»
Author: George Sand
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