Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

Quote by George Sand

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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

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

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

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you...

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you...

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the...

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the...

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters...

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters...

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

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

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.

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

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

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

No human creature can give orders to love.

No human creature can give orders to love.

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

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

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to...

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to...

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to...

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to...

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

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

Vanity is the quicksand of reason

Vanity is the quicksand of reason

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born...

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born...

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.