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
happy people common
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
helping-others humanity trying
Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.
quality noble virtue
I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.
stupid ambition people
We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
heart may knows
Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself
country paris profound
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.
suicide witty book
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
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.
joy sorrow knows
Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.
prayer world lovers
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
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.
selfish self-respect self
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
passion
We must have a passion in life.
unrequited-love love-is errors
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.