Quotes by George Sand

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

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

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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."

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

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"Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness."

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

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

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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."

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