Quotes by George Sand

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

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

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.