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“Admiration and familiarity are strangers.”

- George Sand

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“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”

- George Sand

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“Every historian discloses a new horizon.”

- George Sand

Source/Notes: Letters of George Sand (2009 edition), Cosimo, Inc. - ISBN: 9781605206134

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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.”

- George Sand

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“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.”

- George Sand

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“I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.”

- George Sand

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“I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.”

- George Sand

Source/Notes: Les Œuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand, Library of Alexandria - ISBN: 9781465527363

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

- George Sand

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“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.”

- George Sand

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“No human creature can command love, and no one is guilty for feeling or for losing it.”

- George Sand

Source/Notes: Jacques (1833), LXXXI. Sometimes misquoted as "No human creature can give orders to love."

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“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.”

- George Sand

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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?”

- George Sand

Source/Notes: Histoire de ma vie [Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand] (autobiography up to the revolution of 1848; 1855)

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“One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.”

- George Sand

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“One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.”

- George Sand

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