Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué.
The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.
Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, aka, George Sand, Letter to Armand Barbès, (May 12, 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.