George Sand

"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."

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Source: George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.17

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George Sand

George Sand

Novelist, Memoirist

George Sand was a French novelist and feminist known for her bold exploration of love and freedom in works like 'Indiana'.

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"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness."

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