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
half heroic
a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.
sex men mind
There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.
work
Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.
feelings losing blame
No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.
childhood triumph incomparable
... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?
novel happens
Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.
admiration stranger aeroplanes
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
suffering cups drink
we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.
life-is sin repentance
Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.
home men doors
It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.
self intellectual able
living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.
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.
sorrow very-good
Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.