God Abandons Only Those Who Abandon Themselves,

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.

Charity Degrades Those Who Receive It And Hardens Those Who Dispense It.

Life In Common Among People Who Love Each Other Is The Ideal Of Happiness.

Where Love Is Absent There Can Be No Woman.

We Must Have A Passion In Life.