George Sand

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

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

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

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted read more

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?

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to read more

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.