"He who draws noble delights
from the sentiments of poetry is a true poet,
though he has never written a line in all his life."
-Georges Sand

"Can one thus resume one's self?
Can one know one's self?
Is one ever somebody?
I don't know anything about it any more.
It now seems to me that one changes
from day to day and that every few years
one becomes a new being."
-Georges Sand

"Art is not a study of positive reality,
it is the seeking for ideal truth."
-Georges Sand

"The beauty that addresses itself
to the eyes is only the spell of the moment;
the eye of the body is not always that of the soul."
-Georges Sand

"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?"
-Georges Sand

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

"There is only one happiness in life...
to love and to be loved."
-Georges Sand