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
french-novelist happiness love
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
love life friendship
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
kindness regret giving
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
aggravation charity philanthropy-giving
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
flower butterfly feelings
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
philosophy understanding style
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.
world matter way
The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.
happy people common
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
suicide witty book
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
prayer world lovers
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
selfish self-respect self
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
passion
We must have a passion in life.
unrequited-love love-is errors
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.
love-is cease
Not to love is to cease to live.