#george sand

[mournfulroses]

George Sand, from a letter to Gustave Flaubert written c. September 1871

#lit #george sand #gustave flaubert #words #quotes #letter collection #writings #fragments #p

[tamsoj]

I do not know the name of the feeling that I have for you. But it is a special tenderness, something I have never felt until now, not for anyone.

— Gustave Flaubert in correspondence with George Sand; Croisset, 12 November 1866, Monday night, from Selected Letters

#gustave flaubert #george sand #letters #selected letters

[rosepompadour]

She prefers to stay alone in her room with a book in her hand, like a romantic heroine.

George Sand, Indiana (1832)

#i know i'm v. vocal about my dislike of paris but the musée de la vie romantique has tout mon coeur 🤍 #george sand #indiana #literature

[angstkater]

mary oliver, from the deer // @stuffedgrapeleaves // yohji yamamoto // mary oliver, from dogfish // @b0nkcreat // anna akhmatova, from somewhere there is a simple life (tr. by judith hemschemeyer) // alison a. malee // nikki giovanni, from mirrors // george sand (amantine lucile aurore dupin), from the george sand-gustave flaubert letters

#parallels #web weaving #mary oliver #george sand #anna akhmatova

[random-brushstrokes]

Eugène Delacroix - George Sand's Garden at Nohant (1840s)

#eugène delacroix #french art #george sand #1840s

[virgin-martyr]

I pass entire weeks without exchanging a word with a human being, and at the end of the week it is not possible for me to recall a single day nor any event whatsoever... The nights are black as ink, and a silence surrounds me comparable to that of the desert. Sensitiveness is increased immeasurably in such a setting. I have palpitations of the heart for nothing.

Gustave Flaubert, in a letter to George Sand (1867)

#gustave flaubert #george sand #letters

[weirdlookindog]

Maurice Sand - Les Lupins

illustration from "Lubins ou Lupins" a chapter in "Légendes rustiques" by George Sand.

"... lubins aren’t quite werewolves. “Sorrowful, dreamy and stupid spirits,” she writes, “they spend their lives chatting in an unknown language along the walls of cemeteries. In some places they are accused of breaking into the field of rest and gnawing on bones. In the latter case, they belong to the race of lycanthropes and werewolves, and must be called lupins. But in the case of lubins, manners soften with the name. They do no harm and escape at the slightest sound.” (source)

#maurice sand #les lupins #lubins ou lupins #légendes rustiques #george sand #werewolf #werewolves #werewolfery #lycanthropes #lubins #art #horror #folk horror #illustration

[bearingwitness]

Notebooks 1951-1959 by Albert Camus // The Knight of the Flowers (detail) by Georges Rochegrosse // The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica by Bernadette Mayer // Little Weirds by Jenny Slate // Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre // The Fairy Glen by Steve Gill // The Carrying by Ada Limón // All the Gay Saints by Kayleb Rae Candrilli // Mirrors X by Nikki Giovanni // The Poet by Reynier Llanes // The Wanderings of Oisin by W.B Yeats // Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke // Letter to Gustave Flaubert X by George Sand // When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen // Waterlilies by Claude Monet

#w #tenderness #web weaving #albert camus #bernadette mayer #jenny slate #jean paul sartre #ada limon #nikki giovanni #wb yeats #rainer maria rilke #george sand #chen chen #claude monet #poetry #art

[thebeautifulbook]

FADETTE [aka LA PETITE FADETTE) by George Sand. (New York: Richmond, 1893) Translated from the French by Jane Minot Sedgwick.

750 copies on Windsor hand-made paper.

#beautiful books #book blog #books books books #book cover #books #vintage books #illustrated book #victorian era #george sand #book design

[philosophors]

“There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”

— George Sand

#george sand #literature #lit #literature lover #literature quote #literature quotes #french literature #philosophy #philosophical #philosopher #philosophers #philosophy of life #philosophy quote #philosophy quotes #quote #quotes #excerpts #excerpt #quoteoftheday #bookworm #booklover #book #books #booklr #book quotes #book quotations #love quote #lovers #love quotes #love

[clove-pinks]

Henri Latouche and George Sand by Paul Gavarni, 1831. (eta: dating it c. 1831 based on info from musées de la région Centre)

#1830s #paul gavarni #george sand #henri latouche #historical men's fashion #fashion #1831 #fashion history #romantic era #illustration #i swear i found this in good quality in a public domain gavarni book last night #but it was a will o the wisp never to be seen again #i literally spent hours trawling french museum websites #this is the best quality i can find it was unsourced on a forum #in my paul gavarni era #he does neckwear so brilliantly

[mournfulroses]

George Sand, from a letter to Gustave Flaubert written c. September 1971

#lit #george sand #letters #gustave flaubert #words #writings #selections #fragments #p

[petaltexturedskies]

George Sand, from letter to Gustave Flaubert dated 9 May 1867, from The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

#george sand #typography #melancholia #melancholy

[rosepompadour]

Fairy Tale Vibes in Classic Literature 🩷 SLEEPING BEAUTY: Isoline by Judith Gautier (1882) CINDERELLA: The Tale of Lady Ochikubo by Anonymous (c. late 10th century) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: Mauprat by George Sand (1837) RAPUNZEL: Aucassin and Nicolette by Anonymous (c. early 1200s)

#nicolette my beloved #the og lost princess #literature #bookedit #litedit #historyedit #fairytaleedit #sleeping beauty #cinderella #beauty and the beast #rapunzel #judith gautier #george sand #*

[felixwhetsel]

one more/last one, this time with george sand making an appearance

#franz liszt #frederic chopin #george sand #historical fiction

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Ivan Myasoedov - Frederic Chopin and George Sand (ca. 1910)

#Ivan Myasoedov #ukrainian art #genre painting #frederic chopin #george sand