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
believe men justice
Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.
kissing air lips
When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you....
young-love needs danger
Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it.
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.
half heroic
a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.
trouble fretting
fretting at trouble only doubles it.
novel happens
Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.
admiration stranger aeroplanes
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
suffering cups drink
we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.
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.
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.
sorrow very-good
Sorrow makes us very good or very bad.
littles towns plague
Gossiping is the plague of little towns.
sex men mind
There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.