Today is the birthday of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin (July 1, 1804 – June 8, 1876), novelist. She is best known by her pseudonym George Sand."The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route." - George Sand
"One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness — simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain." - George Sand
"Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life." - George Sand
"The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route." - George Sand
"One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered." - 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
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