George Sand Quotes


We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.


Citations

Sand, George. Mauprat. Translated by Stanley Young, P.F. Collier & Son, 1902, p. 308.

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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.