I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the … - George Sand

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If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

George Sand

I 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.

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nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then. . . We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.

Nature, Poetry, Stars, Sweet, Twinkle, Unsullied

If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.

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When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you. . .

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faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

Expect, Faith, Like, Like Love, Want

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!

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