French Writers Socks

Description: Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, french writers

Description: Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, french writers

Description: Anaïs Nin quote: If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Description: Anaïs Nin portrait and a quote of Talmudic origin: We Don’t See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are

Description: Alexandre Dumas quote: I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Description: Michel de Montaigne quote: Je veux qu'on me voit en ma façon simple, naturelle, et ordinaire, sans étude et artifice; car c'est moi que je peins...Je suis moi-même la matière de mon livre.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within.

Description: George Sand quote: We cannot tear out a single page of our lives; but we can throw the book into the fire.

Description: George Sand quote: Art for the sake of art itself is an idle sentence. Art for the sake of truth, for the sake of what is beautiful and good — that is the creed I seek.

Description: George Sand quote: L'art pour l'art est un vain mot. L'art pour le vrai, l'art pour le beau et le bon, voilà la religion que je cherche....

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: Anaïs Nin portrait and quote: I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

Description: George Sand quote: Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu.

Description: George Sand quote: Garde en toi le trésor de la bonté. Sache donner sans hésitation, perdre sans regret, acquérir sans lâcheté. Sache mettre dans ton coeur le bonheur de ceux que tu aimes à la place de celui qui te manquera!

Description: Marguerite Duras quote: “The story of my life doesn’t exist. Does not exist. There’s never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it’s not true, there was no one.”

Description: George Sand quote: Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect.

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: Guy de Maupassant quote: The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

Description: Guy de Maupassant portrait and quote: Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

Description: Anaïs Nin quote: “The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.”

Description: George Sand quote: J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et presque indestructible.

Description: George Sand quote: I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.

Description: Gustav Flaubert quote: The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

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.

Description: George Sand quote: Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Description: Montaigne quote: Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d'autant plus me dire.

Description: The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

Description: Guy de Maupassant portrait and quote: Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Description: Gustave Flaubert quote: Sentences must stir in a book like leaves in a forest, each distinct from each despite their resemblance.

Description: André Gide portrait and quote: “Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”

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: La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu’un roman ne ressemble à la vie.

Description: Art from the box of some 1920s Fountain Pen nibs. Classic writer stuff here. Great gift for writers, fans of Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, other writers of yore.

Description: Michel Foucault quote: Qui définit le moment où j'écris?

Description: André Gide portrait and quote: “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it”

Description: Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (1908 – 1986), commonly known as Simone de Beauvoir was one of the most preeminent French existentialist philosophers and writers. Working alongside other famous existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, de Beauvoir produced a rich corpus of writings including works on ethics, feminism, fiction, autobiography, and politics. This creative digital portrait is based on a popular photograph believed to be in public domain.