#l

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

— George Sand

#his #man #pleasure #punishment #reward

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

#delights #draws #his #life #line

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

#behind #follow #front #i #i may not

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. ↗

— George Sand

#cling #coin #condition #empty #enthusiasm

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? ↗

— George Sand

#adores #believed #blush #captured #deliberately

Every historian discloses a new horizon. ↗

— George Sand

#every #historian #horizon #new

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy. ↗

— George Sand

#destroy #enthusiasm #i #instantly #nature

I find most men don't like a lot of makeup. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#i #like #lot #makeup #men

I thought it would be easy. I thought it'd take me one year to be Salma Hayek. ↗

— Roselyn Sanchez

#hayek #i #me #take #thought

No human creature can give orders to love. ↗

— George Sand

#give #human #love #orders #to love