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Posted on Oct 08, 2008 under Amandine, Amantine, Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, G, George Sand | No CommentFamous Love Quotes and Sayings from George Sand
1. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
2. I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one’s being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Amantine (also “Amandine”) Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness (French: baronne) Dudevant (1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ sɑ̃d]), was a French novelist. She is considered by some a feminist although she refused to join this movement. She is regarded as the first French female novelist to gain a major reputation.
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Famous Sayings by George Sand
1. Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
2. Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
3. Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
4. No human creature can give orders to love.
5. 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.
6. 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?
7. One changes from day to day, and… after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
8. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
9. 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.
10. Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
11. Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
12. One is happy as a result of one’s own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.
13. You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.
14. If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.
