George Sand Life Quotations

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

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.

...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.)

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.