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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: 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: 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: Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Description: George Sand quote: La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu’un roman ne ressemble à la vie.

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: 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: 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: 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: One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness — simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience.

Description: George Sand quote: On est heureux par soi-même quand on sait s'y prendre, avoir des goûts simples, un certain courage, une certaine abnégation, l'amour du travail et avant tout une bonne conscience.

Description: George Sand quote: Life is a long ache which rarely sleeps and can never be cured.

Description: George Sand quote: La vie est une longue blessure qui s'endort rarement et ne se guérit jamais.

Description: George Sand quote: Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Description: George Sand quote: L'art n'est pas une étude de la réalité positive; c'est une recherche de la vérité idéale.

Description: Christian Morgenstern: Schön ist eigentlich alles, was man mit Liebe betrachtet. Je mehr jemand die Welt liebt, desto schöner wird er sie finden.

Description: Christian Morgenstern: I'm a man of limits: forever physically, emotionally, morally and artistically on the brink of plunging into the abyss. Yet I manage to keep my balance and possess presence of mind.

Description: Christian Morgenstern: I shall excavate the strata of my soul.

Description: Christian Morgenstern: I bear no treasures within me. I only possess the power to transform much of what I touch into something of value. I have no depths, save my incessant desire for the depths.

Description: Christian Morgenstern: Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Description: Christian Morgenstern: That which must not, can not be.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity; of Spenser, remoteness; of Milton, elevation; of Shakespeare, every thing.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Those who aim at faultless regularity will only produce mediocrity, and no one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: To be remembered after we are dead, is but a poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Description: William Hazlitt quote: Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits, and you will pass for a fine man.