I love everything that makes up a milieu, the rolling of the carriages and the noise of the workmen in Paris, the cries of a thousand birds in the country, the movement of the ships on the waters. I love also absolute, profound silence, and, in short, I love everything that is around me, no matter where I am.

The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert (ed. e-artnow, 2015) - ISBN: 9788026836995