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The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

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
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Playwright
Salonnière
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Paris
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we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.
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Art belongs to all times and to all countries its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.
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