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
different aging old-woman
The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
beauty eye soul
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
poetry noble delight
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
happiness lying consciousness
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it.
knowing hands humanity
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
angel cat pet
When they are among us cats are angels
passion divine capacity
The capacity of passion is both cruel and divine
selfish self-respect self
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
beautiful art essence
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art.
writing obsession violent
The trade of authorship is a violent, and indestructible obsession.
heart fighting sorrow
God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.
heart tears my-heart
These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!
heart wrinkles
a woman's heart has no wrinkles.
winter waste twenties
One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.