255 Quotes by George Sand

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her."(Letter, 17 June 1837)

You must write for all those who are thirsty to read and who can enjoy a good reading.

Неужели ради того, чтобы уцелели наши стены, сложенные изо льда, нужно остерегаться даже слабого луча солнца?

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."("The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.")[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

Oh, woman, woman! (...) Thou art a mystery, an abyss, and he who thinks to know thee is totally mad.

It is warm, I am alive, I am calm and sad, I hardly know why. In this existence so even, so tranquil, and so gentle as I have here, I am in an element that weakens me morally while strengthening me physically; and I fall into melancholies of honey and roses which are none the less melancholy. It seems to me that all those I love forget me, and that it is justice, because I live a selfish life having nothing to do for any one of them.