255 Quotes by George Sand

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

Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

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

... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

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

Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.

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?