I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's … - George Sand

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I think, you know, for me, whatever I need to slot into to make that music the best it can be or help the artists, or whoever I'm working with, achieve whatever vision they have in their head for a song.

George Sand

I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.

Failure, Lottery, Mind, Nothing, Succeed, Upset

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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.

Ignorant, Law, Love, Men, Subject

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

Air, Dissolved, Draw, Kissing, Lips, Tried

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!

Good, Heart, My Heart, Perhaps, Tears, Watered