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

— George Sand , book Mauprat

Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu.
Source: Mauprat, ch. 11 (1837); Matilda M. Hays (trans.) Mauprat (London: E. Churton, 1847) p. 121

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Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu.

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