I. Frost's Selected Quotations

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Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. George Sand

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe. George Sand

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

He who draws noble delights from the sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

Can one thus resume one's self? Can one know one's self? Is one ever somebody? I don't know anything about it any more. It now seems to me that one changes from day to day and that every few years one becomes a new being. George Sand

The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men. George Sand

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Liszt said to me today that God alone deserves to be loved. It may be true, but when one has loved a man it is very different to love God.

Classification is Ariadne's clue through the labyrinth of nature.

The mind has no sex.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.

But if these people of the future are better than we are, they will, perhaps, look back at us with feelings of pity and tenderness for struggling souls who once divined a little of what the future would bring.