George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings Quotes

“Her novels were like fruit, which, when ripe, fell away from her.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“For her, writing was a pleasure, as it was the satisfaction of a need. As her works were no effort to her, they left no trace in her memory. She had not intended to write them, and, when once written, she forgot them.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“She was a poet herself who lost her way and came into our century of prose, and she continued her singing.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“On comparing George Sand with the novelists of her time, what strikes us most is how different she was from them.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“She was as hardy as iron as she grew old.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“The state of mind which can be read between the lines in George Sand’s letters to Flaubert is serenity and this is also the characteristic of her work during the last period of her life.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“He borrowed some of the most pitiful traits from reality and recomposed them into a regular nightmare.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“On every subject the opinion of one was sure to be the direct opposite of the opinion of the other. The was just what had attracted them.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“I should not be interested in myself,” George Sand said, “if I had the honour of meeting myself.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“In spite of your large sphinx eyes, you have seen the world, through gold colour.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“He saw all things at their worst; she saw them better than they were.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“To her the theory of art for the sake of art had always seemed a very hollow theory.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“He admired her, too, as he admired in his father, that wealth of creative power and immense capacity for uninterrupted work.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“Style is, perhaps, the sovereign quality in these stories.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“After the terrible June troubles, George Sand had been heartbroken, and had turned once more to literature for consolation.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“The most gloomy depression took the place of her former enthusiasm. It had only required a few weeks for this change to take place.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“He had made his career by prisons, or rather he had made prisons his career.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“With her idealism, she was always incarnating in some individual the perfections that she was constantly imagining.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“It was impossible for her to be without one, although, with her vivid imagination, she changed idols frequently.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“With George Sand’s collaboration, the Bulletin de la Republique became unexpectedly interesting.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“She goes on dreaming this of the stars. Everything she hears, everything she sees enchants her. The most absurd measures delight her.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“She wanted to breathe in the atmosphere of a revelation, and she was soon intoxicated by it.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“Never were so many tender epithets used as driving the years of the Reign of Terror, and in the official processions Robespierre was adorned with flowers like a village bride.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“We believe that the mission of art is a mission of sentiment and of love, and that the novel of to-day ought to take the place of the parable and the apologue of more primitive times.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“People have wondered by what fit of imagination, George Sand, when telling such a wholesome story of country life, should evoke the ghastly vision of Holbein’s Dance of Death.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“The share which belongs to George Sand in the history of the French novel is having impregnated the novel with the poetry in her soul.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“Her language is like those rivers which flow along and limped, between flowery banks and oases of verdure, rivers by the side of which the traveller loves to linger and lose himself in dreams.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings

“She never lost that rare faculty which she possessed of being surprised at things, so that she looked at everything with youthful eyes.”
― René Doumic, George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings