We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
George SandLife is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.
George SandThe masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.
George SandI have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.
George SandI love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.
George Sand