Almost All Novels Are Love Stories.

The Lessons Of Experience Are Always Learned Too Late.

Vanity Is The Quicksand Of Reason.

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.

These Tears Do Me Good, They Have Watered The Parched Place; Perhaps My Heart Will Grow Again There!

Simplicity Is The Essence Of The Great, The True, The Beautiful In Art.