George Sand

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other. ↗

— George Sand

#god #love #friendship

Art for art’s sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of the true, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for. ↗

— George Sand

#beauty #faith #art

[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary. ↗

— George Sand

#good #helpful #beauty

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made. ↗

— George Sand

#god #virtue #beauty

La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie." ("Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.") ↗

— George Sand

#fiction #life #novels #realism #resemblance

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

— George Sand

#life #love #loved #only #to love

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. ↗

— George Sand

#because #everybody #hand #himself #how

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. ↗

— George Sand

#catastrophe #end #goal #journey

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered. ↗

— George Sand

#altered #changes #completely #day #day to day

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. ↗

— George Sand

#beauty #body #eye #eyes #itself