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1804–1876 France
Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, baronne Dudevant (1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), most famous under her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and a pioneer of feminism.
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He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
The Haunted Pool (1890)
He made a single instrument speak a language of infinity. He could often sum up, in ten lines that a child could play, poems of a boundless exaltation, dramas of unequalled power.
The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.
He would spend six weeks on one page, only to end up writing it just as he had traced it in his first outpouring.
By prayer I do not mean a chosen arrangement of words cast toward heaven, but a silent conversation with an ideal of luminous perfection."
Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it, and by no means in the way the future keeps its promises.
Where love is absent there can be no woman.
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.
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.
Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it.
We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire.
Mauprat (1837)
The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes.
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
Handsome Lawrence (1870)
La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie.
It's not the first time I've noticed how much more power words have than ideas, particularly in France.
Life is a long ache which rarely sleeps and can never be cured.
A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without emphasis, and lays stress only on what is deeply felt.
It was there he composed these most beautiful of short pages which he modestly entitled the Preludes. They are masterpieces.
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