George Sand

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. ↗

— George Sand

#indestructible #obsession #trade #violent

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. ↗

— George Sand

#keep #old #old age #right #soul

No human creature can give orders to love. ↗

— George Sand

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. ↗

— George Sand

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

— George Sand

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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. ↗

— George Sand

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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. ↗

— George Sand

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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. ↗

— George Sand

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Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ↗

— George Sand

#familiarity #strangers

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. ↗

— George Sand

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