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~ George Sand Quotes ~
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George Sand Quotes


A French novelist and memoirist.
Amantine (also "Amandine") Lucile Aurore Dupin, later Baroness (French: baronne) Dudevant (Paris, 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and memoirist.

Here are some famous quotes by George Sand.




Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

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Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.

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

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

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

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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

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Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength his glory and his pleasure.

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The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet though he has never written a line in all his life.

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« Reply #9 on: August 13, 2014, 10:33:08 AM »
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm a state of intellectual magnificence which we must not squander on our way through life.

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« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2014, 10:33:43 AM »
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years and that too with surprising strides.

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« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2014, 10:34:13 AM »
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.

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« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2014, 10:34:36 AM »
Guard within yourself that treasure kindness. Know how to give without hesitation how to lose without regret how to acquire without meanness; know how to replace in your heart by the happiness of those you love the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.