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" Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure. "
George Sand
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" Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. "
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" Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven. "
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" One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. "
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" Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. "
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" 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. "
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" Admiration and familiarity are strangers. "
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" We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire. "
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" Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. "
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" 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? "
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" Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. "
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" Every historian discloses a new horizon. "
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" No human creature can give orders to love. "
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" No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. "
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" The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession. "
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" I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy. "
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" The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world. "
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" He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. "
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" Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. "
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" The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. "
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" Vanity is the quicksand of reason. "
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" Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age. "
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" Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. "
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" I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it. "
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