George Sand

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.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

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.

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?

It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the read more

It was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.