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
happiness lying consciousness
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
love-is cease
Not to love is to cease to live.
poetry noble delight
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
beauty eye soul
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.
order giving humans
No human creature can give orders to love.
different aging old-woman
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
passion divine capacity
The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine
beautiful art sake
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.
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.
hands ties body
You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.
religion force built
No religion can be built on force.
revolution
No one makes a revolution by himself.
love women love-is
Where love is absent there can be no woman.