George Sand Quotes


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.


Citations

Sand, George. The Journeyman Joiner, or The Companion of the Tour of France. Translated by Francis George Shaw, W. H. Graham, 1847, p. 270.

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George Sand
George Sand
  • Born: July 1, 1804
  • Died: June 8, 1876
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Novelist

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, best known by her pen name George Sand (French: [ʒɔʁʒ sɑ̃d]), was a French novelist, memoirist, and journalist. One of the most popular writers in Europe in her lifetime, being more renowned than both Victor Hugo and Honoré de Balzac in England in the 1830s and 1840s, Sand is recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era.