Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baronne Dudevant , best known by her pseudonym George
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“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
George Sand
“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”
“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”
“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.”
“Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.”
“Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?”
“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.”
“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.”
“We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire”
“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.”