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.
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You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions you are the strongest, and society adds to your power but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.George Sand
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.
George Sand
I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
George Sand
One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
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
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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