The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
George Sand

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

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

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand

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

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
George Sand

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
George Sand