How shall I free myself from this marble envelope which grips me round the knees, and holds me as totally imprisoned as a corpse by its tomb?
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(Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin), Lélia (1833), vol. 1, p. 292. Reported in André Maurois, tr. Gerard Hopkins, Lélia: The Life of George Sand (1954), pt. 3, sec. 5. See also TIME, vol. 62, no. 11 (14 September 1953), p. 122