Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin (1804–76,) known by her nom de plume George Sand, was a French novelist. She was the most successful woman writer of her century. Her novels present large portraiture of the romantic sentiment and 19th-century life, particularly its more pastoral aspects.
Born in Paris, Sand became infamous for her unconventional lifestyle, which included a penchant for wearing men’s clothing, the use of her selected pseudonym, and open liaisons with such prominent figures as the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin and the French dramatist Alfred de Musset. Her Elle et Lui (1859; She and He) is a fictionalized account of her affair with Musset, and Un Hiver à Majorque (1841; A Winter in Majorca) with Chopin.
Sand’s earlier Romantic novels such as Lélia (1833) and Mauprat (1837) represent women’s struggles against conservative morals. Her later novels include the popular La Mare au Diable (1846; The Devil’s Pool,) Les Maîtres Sonneurs (1853; The Bagpipers,) and Indiana (1853.)
Sand also wrote a French adaption of Shakespeare’s As You Like It (1856.)
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There is only one happiness in life—to love and be loved.
—George Sand
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
—George Sand
Topics: Art, Artists
Oblivion is the flower that grows best on graves.
—George Sand
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
—George Sand
Topics: Revolution
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
—George Sand
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
—George Sand
Life is a long ache which rarely sleeps and can never be cured.
—George Sand
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one’s talent, and one’s inner happiness.
—George Sand
Topics: Soul
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