"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved."
"God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other."
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Source: George Sand, Jane Minot Sedgwick (1893). “Fadette (La Petite Fadette): Tr. from the French by Jane Minot Sedgwick, with an Etching by E.Abot”, Boston, Little, Brown [c1893]
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