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The author of these novellas has never had a system as to the priority of one sex over the other. He has always believed in the perfect natural equality between the sexes which is in no way altered by the diversity of their functions, since each sex finds its superiority in exercising the function that nature and Providence have accorded it.

— George Sand Preface to The Marquise & Pauline (1861)

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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.

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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.

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