About George Sand:

Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin is equally well known for her much publicized romantic affairs with a number of artists, including the composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin and the writer Alfred de Musset.

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I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here ...

George Sand

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.

George Sand

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her."

George Sand

Let us leave political questions to be decided by the powers concerned," Sir Ralph would say, "as we have adopted a form of government which forbids us to discuss our interests ourselves. If a nation is responsible for the faults of its legislature, ...

George Sand

Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées."

George Sand

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides h...

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Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

George Sand

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

George Sand

La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie."

George Sand

The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she hadn't cared to ask them in, and had told them to go on to Mers. "Why didn't you let them in?" asked Germain angrily. "People must be very suspici...

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[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary.

George Sand

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

George Sand

No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.

George Sand

[On Chopin's :] "His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought, and not through slavish imitation of the actual external sounds. His composition of that night was surely filled...

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

George Sand

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

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

George Sand

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

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

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.

George Sand

Author Bio

NameGeorge Sand
DescriptionFrench novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
AliasesAmantine Lucile Aurore Dupin; Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin; Baroness Dudevant
BornJuly 1, 1804
DiedJune 8, 1876
CountryFrance
ProfessionWriter; Journalist; Salon-holder; Playwright; Novelist; Composer

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