We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
George SandThe beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
George SandI loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.
George Sand