The 18 best quotes by George Sand (Baroness de Dudevant)

Hidden under a pseudonym, the French author Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, left us incredible works.

George Sand (1804 - 1876), pseudonym of Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, Baroness de Dudevant, was a French writer, author of works of great diffusion and success, such as Indiana (1832), Lélia (1833), The Companion of France (1840), Comfort (1843) or The Dreaming Masters (1853).

Friend and companion of great figures of her time such as Franz Liszt, Delacroix, Jules Verne, Honoré de Balzac or Victor Hugo, this writer was born into a wealthy family. She not only developed a powerful literary work, but also a dramaturgical one.

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George Sand's Famous Quotes

In today's article we will know closely the thoughts and reflections of this fantastic French writer through the 18 best quotes by George Sand. We are facing a figure who left us great famous quotes, some wrongly attributed to other authors.

1. The true way to know nothing is to learn everything at once.

Learning requires tempos and rests.

2. Memory is the perfume of the soul.

Magnificent poetic reflection.

3. The intelligence searches, but it is the Heart that finds.

Our cognitive part can never replace our search for exciting experiences.

4. Do not love those you do not admire. Love without admiration is only friendship.

One of those phrases about love that can make us reflect.

5. Love. It is the only good there is in life.

On the importance of maintaining positive relationships.

6. There is no such thing as a woman. There are only women whose types vary infinitely.

About the female gender and its multiplicity of forms and contents.

Woe to the man who wants to act sincerely in love!

George Sand probably meant that sincerity is never a good strategy, unfortunately.

8. Time does not cure great pains, but it does numb them.

A natural anesthetic: the passage of time.

9. In women, pride is often the motive for love.

Nothing is more reprehensible than to love a man out of mere pride.

10. We are not only body, or only spirit, we are body and spirit at the same time.

His conception of the human soul.

11. My profession is to be free.

A phrase about freedom, even in a field that is usually linked to the yoke.

12. There is no true happiness in selfishness.

Happiness, if it exists, must be shared with other people.

13. Disappointments do not kill, and hopes make you live.

Hope keeps us going no matter what.

14. Nature is a work of art, but God is the only artist that exists, and man is but a workman of bad taste.

On the natural world and its divine perfection.

15. To love without being loved is like lighting a cigarette with an already extinguished match.

The rejection of love can be as painful as an illness.

16. Love does not live long on sweet glances and love letters.

Sad but accurate reflection.

17. Never be discouraged. Dreams fly, work remains.

One of George Sand's most remembered phrases.

18. I have read somewhere that to love each other you must have similar principles, with opposite tastes.

A curious reflection on couples who can fit together.