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No human creature can give orders to love.

Quote by George Sand about love, human imperfections

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

Quote by George Sand about simplicity, limits, genius, experience, things, world

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Quote by George Sand about woman, earth, love

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

Quote by George Sand about life, fire, fire brigade

Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.

Quote by George Sand about work, reward, punishment, pleasure, man

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

Quote by Georges Bataille about crime, criminals, secret, human imperfections, things

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Quote by Georges Bataille about truth, faith, face

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison.

Quote by Georges Bataille about pleasure, happiness

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

Quote by Georges Bataille about sacrifice, nothing, things

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Quote by Georges Bataille about conscience, morality, origin, light, use, human imperfections, good, good luck, life

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Quote by Herbert George Wells about history, disaster, education

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Quote by Herbert George Wells about past, beginning

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Quote by Herbert George Wells about wife, despair, future, human imperfections, time

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Quote by Herbert George Wells about politics, joke

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Quote by Herbert George Wells about beauty, heart

Cynicism is humor in ill health.

Quote by Herbert George Wells about humor, cynicism

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Quote by Herbert George Wells about nature

I am a mixture of idealist and realist.

Quote by Roger Moore about attention

There is nothing glamorous about death.

Quote by Roger Moore about myth, death, nothing

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

Quote by Roger Moore about attitude, modesty, ability, good, good luck