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Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
George Sand
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George Sand
Age: 71 †
Born: 1804
Born: June 1
Died: 1876
Died: May 8
Composer
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Feminist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Salonnière
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Paris
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Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.
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We must love stupid people better than ourselves are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
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We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids.
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To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
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Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.
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It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.
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Life is a slate where all our sins are written from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.
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No human creature can give orders to love.
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... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.
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