"One can no more find love with cool composure and a set purpose than one can find poetic inspiration with those ingredients. To love, one must begin by understanding what a woman is, what protection and respect she is owed. To the man who is imbued with the holiness of reciprocal commitments, the equality of the sexes before God, and the injustices of the social order and of vulgar opinion on this matter, love can reveal itself in all its grandeur and beauty; but to him who is permeated with the common misconceptions on the inferiority of women, on the difference between her duties and ours with respect to fidelity, to him who seeks emotion rather than an ideal, love will not reveal itself. And for this reason, love, this feeling that God created for everyone, is known only to a few."
(another George Sand quote from Horace)
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