"You don't have to write to me..." - Quote by George Sand
You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
More by George Sand
“Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?”
“To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.”
“Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.”
More on Friendship
“In love and friendship the imagination is as much exercised as the heart; and if either is outraged the other will be estranged. It is commonly the imagination which is wounded first, rather than the heart,--it is so much the more sensitive.”
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
“My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.”
More on Freedom
“The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.”
“That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”
“Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?”