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
kissing air lips
When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you....
inspirational-love kindness treasure
Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.
romantic-love long darkness
Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we find that person, life suddenly explodes and darkness turns into a riot of colour. We're always looking for someone, what we need to remember is that someone is out there looking for us too.
half heroic
a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.
littles towns plague
Gossiping is the plague of little towns.
ungrateful feelings ignorant
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.
obstacles made evident
To be made evident, truth must be sought for; for of itself it is slow to appear, and between ourselves and God the obstacles are so many!
humanity life-is vain
...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)
punishment misery prosperity
death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life ...
sublime storm genius
The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.
vow marriage-vows absurdity
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
stories love-story novel
almost all novels are love stories.
new-horizons horizon historian
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
leadership light torches
It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.