Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and memoirist.
Born: July 1, 1804, Paris, France
Died: June 8, 1876, Nohant-Vic, France
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
One changes from day to day, and… after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
One approaches the journey’s end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
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.
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.
There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.
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.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
I’m not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world.
No human creature can give orders to love.
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
