Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

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• George Sand:

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

• George Sand:

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

• George Sand:

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

• George Sand:

  One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

• George Sand:

  Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience

• Emile Zola:

  The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

• Emile Zola:

  There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a

• Emile Zola:

  In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

• Emile Zola:

  One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.

• Emile Zola:

  I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.