Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baronne Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George
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“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”
“Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.”
“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.”
“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.”
“The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world”
“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”
“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.”
“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?”