"Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."
— George Sand

January 1, 1970

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The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route. — Letter to Armand Barbès, (12 May 1867), published in Georges Lubin (ed.) Correspondance (Paris: Garnier Freres, 1964-95) vol. 20, p. 412; Bruce Kajewski Traveling with Hermes (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992) p. 32