George Sand (Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin), 1804 - 1876
Portrait by Félix Nadar (1877)
Born: 1 July 1804, Paris, France
Died: 8 June 1876, Nohant, Indre, France
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- A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man who gives me his; meanwhile, I will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free. permalink
George Sand - Indiana pt. 1, ch. 2 (1832, Sylvia Raphael trans., 2000) - Admiration and familiarity are strangers. permalink
George Sand - All of us who have time and money to spare, travel — that is to say, we flee; since surely it is not so much a question of travelling as of getting away? Which of us has not some sorrow to dull, or some yoke to cast off? permalink
George Sand - Winter in Majorca (1855, Robert Graves trans., 1978) - Art for the sake of art itself is an idle sentence. Art for the sake of truth, for the sake of what is beautiful and good — that is the creed I seek. permalink
George Sand - letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean (19 April 1872) - Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof. permalink
George Sand - François the Waif (1848, Jane Minot Sedgwick trans., 1894) - Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. permalink
George Sand - The Haunted Pool (1851, Frank Hunter Potter trans., 1895) - Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men. permalink
George Sand - But if these people of the future are better than we are, they will, perhaps, look back at us with feelings of pity and tenderness for struggling souls who once divined a little of what the future would bring. permalink
George Sand - Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile. permalink
George Sand - Can one thus resume one's self? Can one know one's self? Is one ever somebody? I don't know anything about it any more. It now seems to me that one changes from day to day and that every few years one becomes a new being. permalink
George Sand - Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. permalink
George Sand - Classification is Ariadne's clue through the labyrinth of nature. permalink
George Sand - Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. permalink
George Sand - Every historian discloses a new horizon. permalink
George Sand - Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument. permalink
George Sand - letter (25 May 1866)
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