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
prayer world lovers
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
joy sorrow knows
Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.
heart law two
God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.
country paris profound
I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.
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.
heart may knows
Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself
years age
Years do not always make age.
heaven earth refuge
Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.
quality noble virtue
I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.
country art lying
Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.
beautiful art sake
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.
lying degrees license
Lying, like license, has its degrees.
believe heart character
I was born to love - but none of you wanted to believe it, and that misunderstanding was crucial in forming my character. It's true that nature was strangely inconsistent in giving me a warm heart, but also a face that was like a stone mask and a tongue that was heavy and slow. She refused me what she bestowed freely on even the most loutish of my fellow men. . . . People judged my inner character by my outer covering, and like a sterile fruit, I withered under the rough husk I couldn't slough off.
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.