"O heart! love is thy bane and..." - Quote by George Sand

“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.”

“Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.”

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

“I told you once that [our marriage] was like an adolescent's dream of what marriage should be like. That hasn't changed.”

“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.”

“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”

“O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!”

“I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.”

“Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.”