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J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible."

("I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.")

[Letter to Jules Boucoiran, 4 March 1831]


George Sand

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GEORGE SAND One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
GEORGE SAND I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.
GEORGE SAND Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
GEORGE SAND Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
GEORGE SAND Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
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GEORGE SAND Where love is absent, there can be no woman.
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GEORGE SAND We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
GEORGE SAND Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
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GEORGE SAND Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretend...
GEORGE SAND One is happy once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree ...
GEORGE SAND Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one...
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GEORGE SAND The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
GEORGE SAND There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
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GEORGE SAND You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to yo...
GEORGE SAND Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.
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GEORGE SAND [On Chopin's Preludes:]

"His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of natur...
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GEORGE SAND We realize we're plucking you out of the mainstream of your lives,
LEONARD SAND is really irrelevant.
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GEORGE LUCAS I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
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GEORGE LUCAS Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
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WALLY GEORGE I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
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INARA GEORGE I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
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GEORGE OSBORNE In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al ...
GEORGE TENET In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
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GEORGE MILLER All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
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GEORGE ELIOT Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
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GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'
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GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images ...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
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GEORGE WASHINGTON The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
GEORGE ORWELL Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
GEORGE ORWELL War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
GEORGE ORWELL At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually l...
GEORGE ORWELL If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a cr...
GEORGE ORWELL When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
GEORGE ORWELL Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha...
GEORGE ORWELL Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
GEORGE ORWELL