George Sand Mugs
Description: George Sand quote: Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect.
George Sand quote: Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect. Mug
by artbleed2
$13 $18
Description: George Sand quote: Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
George Sand quote: Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life. Mug
by artbleed2
$13 $18
Description: George Sand quote: Dans les jours orageux de la jeunesse, on s'imagine que la solitude est le grand refuge contre les atteintes, le grand remède aux blessures du combat; c'est une grave erreur, et l'expérience de la vie nous apprend que, là ou l'on ne peut vivre en paix avec ses semblables, il n'est point d'admiration poétique ni de jouissances d'art capables de combler l'abîme qui se creuse au fond de l'âme.
Description: George Sand quote: Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.
Description: George Sand quote: In the stormy days of our youth, we imagine that solitude is a sure refuge from the assaults of life, a certain balm for the wounds of battle. This is a serious mistake, and experience teaches us that, if we cannot live in peace with our fellow-men, neither romantic raptures nor aesthetic enjoyment will ever fill the abyss gaping at the bottom of our hearts.
Description: George Sand quote: Without our even realizing it, literature performs its miracles. It revives the poetry of former days; and, putting to rest in the past all that had been for intellectuals of the past the object of just criticisms, it brings to us, like a forgotten perfume, the unrecognized riches of a taste that is no longer open to discussion, since it no longer reigns arbitrarily. Art, although it poses as egotistical ("art for art's sake"), creates progressive philosophy without realizing it. It makes its peace with the mistakes and shortcomings of the past, to preserve, as in a museum, the monuments of its conquest.
Description: George Sand quote: Sans qu'on y prenne garde, la littérature fait de ces miracles. Elle ressuscite la poésie des époques antérieures; et, laissant dormir dans le passé tout ce qui fut pour les intelligences du passé l'objet de justes critiques, elle nous apporte, comme un parfum oublié, les richesses méconnues d'un goût qui n'est plus à discuter, parce qu'il ne règne plus arbitrairement. L'art, quoiqu'il se pose en égoïste (l'art pour l'art), fait de la philosophie progressive sans le savoir. Il fait sa paix avec les fautes et les misères du passé, pour enregistrer, ainsi qu'en un musée, les monuments de la conquête.
Description: George Sand quote: Nothing is so easy and so common as to deceive one's self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of the language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all rôles, disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write.
