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 doubt world
Ever since time began the world has seemed stupid to those who aren't stupid themselves. It was to avoid that annoyance that I became stupid myself, as fast as ever I could. Sheer egoism, no doubt.
upset mind succeed
I needn't tell you that success and failure prove nothing - the whole thing is a lottery. It's pleasant to succeed; but for a philosophic mind it oughtn't to be very upsetting to fail.
progress treasure language
... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.
simplicity silence one-love
Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.
dream thinking years
Age continually alters the faces of those who think or study, and so their portraits differ from one another and don't even resemble them for very long. I dream so much and live so little that I'm sometimes only three years old. But the next day I'm three hundred, if the dream has been sombre.
cells roaming genius
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary ...
sex serious creation
Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.
lucky masterpiece
Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.
flower love-is feet
... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.
ambition mad done
My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.
stupid people mind
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
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!
flower oblivion graves
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.
together meals satisfaction
To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion ...