"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
"Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund."
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Source: George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.335, Cosimo, Inc.
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