George Sand
Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.Collection: Heart
No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.Collection: Ugly
Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.Collection: Cat
Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourselfCollection: Heart
Lying, like license, has its degrees.Collection: Lying
Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.Collection: Sorrow
When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...Collection: Kissing
I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being.Collection: Believe
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole worldCollection: Prayer
I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.Collection: Passion
Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?Collection: Cutting
A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.Collection: Heart
Party politics is now a real farce.Collection: Real
almost all novels are love stories.Collection: Stories
we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.Collection: Suffering
God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.Collection: Heart
living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.Collection: Self
And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.Collection: Sacrifice
Whoever has loved once, knows all that life contains of sorrow and of joy.Collection: Joy
Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.Collection: Sex
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.Collection: Ungrateful
One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.Collection: Winter
The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe.Collection: Glory
You, stupid one, who believe in laws which punish murder by murder...Collection: Stupid
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.Collection: Flower
Gossiping is the plague of little towns.Collection: Littles
Art speaks only to the mind, whereas nature speaks to all the faculties.Collection: Art
Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness.Collection: Weakness
O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.Collection: Heart
It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.Collection: Leadership
Nature distributes her favors unequally.Collection: Nature
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.Collection: Stars
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.Collection: Jealous
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.Collection: Beautiful
The lessons of experience are always learned too late.Collection: Experience
faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.Collection: Faith
The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.Collection: Powerful
You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.Collection: Friendship
It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.Collection: Friends
Years do not always make age.Collection: Years
Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.Collection: Lucky
As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.Collection: Prison
Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.Collection: Fall
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respectCollection: Selfish
fretting at trouble only doubles it.Collection: Trouble
When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.Collection: Fighting
Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we find that person, life suddenly explodes and darkness turns into a riot of colour. We're always looking for someone, what we need to remember is that someone is out there looking for us too.Collection: Romantic Love
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.Collection: Philosophy
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.Collection: Vanity