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

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About George Sand

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Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil (French: [amɑ̃tin lysil oʁɔʁ dypɛ̃]; 1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand (French: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) sɑ̃d]), was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. Being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in Britain in...

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What is more beautiful than a road? It is the symbol and the image of an active, varied life.

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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

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We borrow the light of an observant and imaginative traveler and see the foreign land bright with his aura; and we think it is the country which shines.

—H. M. Tomlinson

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

—Helen Keller

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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts—such is the duty of the artist.

—Robert Schumann

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When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: "Only stand out of my light." Perhaps someday we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.

—John W. Gardner

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In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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