I 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...Je nโai pas cessรฉ de lโรชtre si cโest dโรชtre jeune que dโaimer toujours !... Lโhumanitรฉ nโest pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite dโamour, et ne plus aimer cโest ne plus vivre." (I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)
George Sand