Status Updates From Lato w Nohant

“But do you think that everything will be finished when I leave Nohant? Do you think that I shall be forgotten? You have just said that Chopin cannot love—perhaps that means only that he was never able to love you.”

“In spite of his being a genius, he is a man, my dearest, only a man. It is only in Paris drawing-rooms that they think of him as a god.”