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No human being can control love, and no one is to blame either for feeling it or for losing it. What alone degrades a woman is falsehood.

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George Sand
Age: 71 †
Born: 1804
Born: June 1
Died: 1876
Died: May 8
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Feminist
Journalist
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Playwright
Salonnière
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Paris
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