George Sand

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• 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.

  Letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean, (19 April 1872), published in Calmann Lévy (ed.) Correspondance (1812-1876)

  • Art

• We cannot tear a single page from our life, but we can throw the whole book into the fire.

  Mauprat, ch. 11 (1837); Matilda M. Hays (trans.) Mauprat (London: E. Churton, 1847) p. 121

  • Life & Death

• Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.

  François le Champi, Introduction (1848); Jane Minot Sedgwick (trans.) François the Waif {New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1894) p. 17

  • Art
  • Nature

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

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