"On n'est jamais plus heureux et inspiré que quand on croit n'avoir pas le temps de l'être."

Autograph letter signed by George Sand addressed to René Biémont. Three pages written in blue ink on a double sheet bearing at the head of the first page the blind stamp of Sand's initials. Envelope included.
Folds inherent to mailing.
This letter was published in the complete correspondence of George Sand established by Georges Lubin.
Fine letter of congratulations addressed to René Biémont after sending his work Le Petit Fils d'Obermann:

"Your little book is very original and you show qualities of talent that will develop, if you look ahead."

As an attentive reader much solicited by her young peers, Sand develops her literary criticism:

"Obermann and his grandson the monk belong to the past. They are true and the timid Jean is well drawn. There is grandeur and truth in this exceptional type. But Constant d'Heurs is too passive to events. He should react against this powerless man and cure him or pity him more [...]"

Sententiously, she thus concludes her letter:

"Do not complain of thankless work and accept it as a good thing, three-quarters of life sacrificed to some duty makes the last quarter very strong and very alive. It is very good to be attached to poetry and thwarted in the possession of a beautiful dream. As soon as one can savor it without respite, it fades or becomes troubled. I speak to you from experience. One is never happier and more inspired than when one believes one does not have time to be so."

Very fine testimony to the leading role that George Sand played on the literary scene of the Second Empire.