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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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
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.
George Sand
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
George Sand
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
George Sand
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.
George Sand
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