"La beauté qui parle aux yeux, reprit-elle, n’est que le prestige d’un moment; l’œuil du corps n'est pas toujours celui de l'âme." <i>("The beauty t… - George Sand
"La beauté qui parle aux yeux, reprit-elle, n’est que le prestige d’un moment; l’œuil du corps n'est pas toujours celui de l'âme."
("The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes," she continued, "is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.")
[Le beau Laurence]
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About George Sand
Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin, baronne Dudevant (1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), most famous under her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist and a pioneer of feminism.
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Alternative Names:
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin
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Amandine Lucile Aurore Dupin
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Baroness Dudevant
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Jules Sand
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Lucie Dudevant
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Aurore Amantine Lucile Dupin
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Aurore Amantine Lucile Sand
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Amandine-Aaurore-Lucile Dupin
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George nee Dupin Sand
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Mrs. George Sand
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Georges Sand
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Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dudevant
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Amandine-Aaurore-Lucile Dudevant
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Lucile Aurore Dupin
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A.A.L. Dudevant-Dupin
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That women differ from men, that heart and intellect are subject to the laws of sex, I do not doubt. But ought this difference, so essential to the general harmony of life, to constitute a moral inferiority? And does it
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