Today is the birthday of Amandine Aurore Lucile Dupin (July 1, 1804 – June 8, 1876), novelist. She best known by her pseudonym George Sand."In the stormy days of our youth, we imagine that solitude is a sure refuge from the assaults of life, a certain balm for the wounds of battle. This is a serious mistake, and experience teaches us that, if we cannot live in peace with our fellow-men, neither romantic raptures nor aesthetic enjoyment will ever fill the abyss gaping at the bottom of our hearts." - 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
"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness." - George Sand"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." - George Sand
"The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart." - George Sand
"Admiration and familiarity are strangers." - George Sand
"The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route." - George Sand
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