George Sand quotes

" There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved. " # Love # Happiness # Life and Living

" Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. " # Truth # Reality # Arts and Artists

" Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. " # Happiness # Common Sense # Love

" Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure. " # Work # Glory # Pleasure

" Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. " # Fiction # Books - Reading # Literature

" Vanity is the quicksand of reason. " # Writers and Writing

" 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. " # Love # Life and Living # Chastity

" The capacity for passion is both cruel and divine. " # Passion

" One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. " # Death and Dying # Goals # Life and Living

" 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. " # Faith # Time and Time Management # Enthusiasm