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
vanity reason quicksand
Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
love men law
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.
forgiveness self forgiving
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
jealous doubt the-end-of-the-day
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.
birthday soul age
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
kissing air lips
When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you....
work passion tasks
I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.
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.
favors ability
Nature distributes her favors unequally.
young-love needs danger
Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.
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.
wise exercise men
All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.
half heroic
a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.