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George Sand1804–1876

George Sand on life and death

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

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