George Sand
...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)Collection: Humanity
Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.Collection: Ocean
... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?Collection: Childhood
It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.Collection: Home
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.Collection: Love
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.Collection: Mother
Humanity is outraged in me and with me.Collection: Humanity
Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.Collection: Silence
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.Collection: Love
No religion can be built on force.Collection: Women
... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.Collection: Progress
The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.Collection: Perfect
[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!Collection: May
The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!Collection: Jealousy
Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored.Collection: Heart
You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.Collection: Stupid
Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.Collection: Punishment
We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.Collection: Writing
There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.Collection: Sacrifice
Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.Collection: Stupid
Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.Collection: Time
a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.Collection: Half
No one makes a revolution by himself.Collection: Revolution
The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.Collection: Book