Mauprat

“We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.””

— George Sand

“She discovered that a great deal of the suffering in this world is due not so much to original sin, but to a kind of original stupidity, an unimaginative, stubborn stupidity.””

— George Sand

“Oh, woman, woman! (...) Thou art a mystery, an abyss, and he who thinks to know thee is totally mad.””

— George Sand

“Bernard, would you like me to tell you why they thought women false?”“Yes, tell me.”“Because they were brutes and tyrants to creatures weaker than themselves. Whenever one makes one’s self feared one runs the risk of being deceived. In your childhood, when John used to beat you, did you never try to escape his brutal punishment by disguising your little faults?”“I did; that was my only resource.”“You can understand, then, that deception is, if not the right, at least the resource of the oppressed.””

— George Sand

“There are many ways of being a sorcerer, and one may read the future without being a servant of the devil.””

— George Sand

“She was no longer the lovely girl whose presence stirred a tumult in my senses; she was a young man of my own age, beautiful as a seraph, proud, courageous, inflexible in honour, generous, capable of that sublime friendship which once bound together brothers in arms, but with no passionate love except for Deity, like the paladins of old, who, braving a thousand dangers, marched to the Holy Land under their golden armour.””

— George Sand

“Let her keep her wit for such as you.””

— George Sand