One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is the compensation of the old.
George SandGod has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.
George SandThe world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.
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