George Sand
George Sand
Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and memoirist. She is equally well known for her much publicized romantic affairs with a number of artists, including Polish-French composer and pianist Frédéric Chopin and the writer Alfred de Musset...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMemoirist
Date of Birth1 July 1804
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
knowing hands humanity
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
angel cat pet
When they are among us cats are angels
passion divine capacity
The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine
selfish self-respect self
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
beautiful art essence
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art.
writing obsession violent
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
passion
We must have a passion in life.
heart fighting sorrow
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.
heart tears my-heart
These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!
heart wrinkles
a woman's heart has no wrinkles.
winter waste twenties
One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.
prayer world lovers
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
joy sorrow knows
Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.
heart law two
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.