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
nature lying eye
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes...
may anticipation lost
[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!
stars volcanoes wind
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.
angel cat devil
Some say that cats are devils, but they behave badly only when they are alone. When they are among us cats are angels.
inspirational-love kindness treasure
Celebrate within yourself that wonderful treasure . . . true kindness.
ugly virtue made
No place is ugly to those who understand the virtues and sweetness of everything that God has made.
romantic-love long darkness
Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we find that person, life suddenly explodes and darkness turns into a riot of colour. We're always looking for someone, what we need to remember is that someone is out there looking for us too.
heart love-is antidote
O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote.
love women love-is
Where love is absent there can be no woman.
revolution
No one makes a revolution by himself.
children moving thinking
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years, and that, too with sur-prising strides. Brain-work comes as easily to the old as physical exertion to the child. One is moving, it is true, towards the end of life, but that end is now a goal, and not a reef in which the vessel may be dashed.
love men law
If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.
jealous doubt the-end-of-the-day
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.
work passion tasks
I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.