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La Mare au diable

La Mare au diable
George Sand Original title La Mare au diable (French, 1846)

La Mare au Diable is an 1846 novel by George Sand.


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“Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.”

L'art n'est pas une étude de la réalité positive; c'est une recherche de la vérité idéale.
La Mare au Diable, ch. 1 (1851); Frank Hunter Potter (trans.) The Haunted Pool (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1895) p. 15

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