George Sand
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Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.
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Universal suffrage, that is to say the expression of the will of all, whether for good
or ill, is a necessary safety-valve. Without it, you will get merely successive outbreaks
of civil violence. This wonderful guarantee of security is there to our hands. It is the
best counterweight so far discovered.
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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
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I ask the support of no one, neither to kill someone for me, gather a bouquet,
correct a proof, nor to go with me to the theater. I go there on my own, as a
man, by choice; and when I want flowers, I go on foot, by myself, to the Alps.
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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?
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My profession is to be free.
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Liszt said to me today that God alone deserves to be loved. It may be true, but when
one has loved a man it is very different to love God.
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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. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I
now feel certain.
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Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual
magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our
way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish
argument.
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Classification is Ariadne's clue through the labyrinth of nature.
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The mind has no sex.
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[Margaret Fuller on George Sand:] George Sand smokes, wears male attire, wishes
to be addressed as Mon frère; perhaps, if she found those who were as brothers indeed,
she would not care whether she were a brother or sister.
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The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I
is beginning.
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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
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But if these people of the future are better than we are, they will, perhaps, look back
at us with feelings of pity and tenderness for struggling souls who once divined a little
of what the future would bring.
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• Each quotation
page in this collection and the entire collection are © Jone Johnson Lewis
1997-2004. This is an informal collection -- if you need citations for the
original source, I don't have those available unless they're listed with the
quotes.
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