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
stupid people mind
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
believe i-believe mortal-sin
I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being...
cells roaming genius
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary ...
exercise brain tools
The brain is a tool that gets rusty without constant, albeit moderate, exercise.
sex serious creation
Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.
sacrifice mind earth
And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim.
art light vocation
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
lucky masterpiece
Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.
heart affliction life-is
Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.
cutting heaven patterns
Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?
love lying believe
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
vanity reason quicksand
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
forgiveness self forgiving
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
time nuts driven
Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.