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“She wanted to breathe in the atmosphere of a revelation, and she was soon intoxicated by it.”
“With George Sand’s collaboration, the Bulletin de la Republique became unexpectedly interesting.”
“Style is, perhaps, the sovereign quality in these stories.”
“To her the theory of art for the sake of art had always seemed a very hollow theory.”
“I should not be interested in myself,” George Sand said, “if I had the honour of meeting myself.”
“She was as hardy as iron as she grew old.”
“Her novels were like fruit, which, when ripe, fell away from her.”