George Sand1804–1876The quotations of
George Sand
French novelist and memoirist
1804–1876
7 quotes, most often on Writing, Life & Death and Art.
- Letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean, (19 April 1872), published in Calmann Lévy (ed.) Correspondance (1812-1876)
We cannot tear a single page from our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire.
Mauprat, ch. 11 (1837); Matilda M. Hays (trans.) Mauprat (London: E. Churton, 1847) p. 121- François le Champi, Introduction (1848); Jane Minot Sedgwick (trans.) François the Waif {New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1894) p. 17
- Letter to Jules Boucoiran (4 March 1831), in Correspondance, ed. Georges Lubin, vol. 1, pp. 817–18
- Un Hiver à Majorque, pt. 1, ch. 4 (1855); Robert Graves (trans.) Winter in Majorca (Chicago: Academy Press, 1978) p. 29
- Histoire de ma vie (1854-55), on Chopin’s Preludes
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
Metella (1833), ch. 1
