Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1 July 1804 - 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand, 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.
•"Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof".
•"Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life".
•"La vita assomiglia ad un romanzo più spesso di quanto i romanzi assomiglino alla vita".
•"I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one".
•"Ho un oggetto, un compito, lasciatemi dire la parola, una passione. La professione dello scrittore è violenta e quasi indistruttibile".
Frédéric Chopin and George Sand
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