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There was with her a feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual. Every step which she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion as an individual. She began to look with her own eyes; to see and to apprehend the deeper undercurrents of life. No longer was she content to "feed upon opinion" when her own soul had invited her. ~ Kate Chopin
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By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. ~ Kate Chopin
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She answered her husband with friendly evasiveness - not with any fixed design to mislead him, only because all sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to Fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference. ~ Kate Chopin
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I love you, only you; no one but you. It was you who awoke me last summer out of a life-long, stupid dream. ~ Kate Chopin
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Par exemple! I never had to ask. You were always there under my feet, like a troublesome cat." "You mean like an adoring dog. And just as soon as Ratignolle appeared on the scene, then it WAS like a dog. 'Passez! Adieu! Allez vous-en! ~ Kate Chopin
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The flowers were like new acquaintances; she approached them in a familiar spirit, and made herself at home among them. ~ Kate Chopin
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Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a distinguished statesman with presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?' or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets? ~ Kate Chopin
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. ~ Kate Chopin
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Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse. ~ Kate Chopin
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She says queer things sometimes in a bantering way that you don't notice at the time and you find yourself thinking about afterward. ~ Kate Chopin
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One of these days," she said, "I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think - try to determine what character of a woman I am, for, candidly, I do not know. By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. But some way I can't convince myself that I am. I must think about it. ~ Kate Chopin
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I have said it before, but I don't think I have ever came so near meaning it. ~ Kate Chopin
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Beside being a respectable woman she was a very sensible one; and she knew there are some battles in life which a human being must fight alone. ~ Kate Chopin
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When Doctor Mandelet dined with the Pontelliers on Thursday he could discern in Mrs. Pontellier no trace of that morbid condition which her husband had reported to him. She was excited and in a manner radiant. ~ Kate Chopin
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She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in. ~ Kate Chopin
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I've been working like a machine, and feeling like a lost soul. ~ Kate Chopin
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Romances serve but to feed the imagination of the young; they add nothing to the sum of truth. ~ Kate Chopin
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Discover her appetite, and to see the relish with which she ate the ~ Kate Chopin
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The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction. ~ Kate Chopin
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I'm tired," she uttered complainingly.
"I know you are."
"You don't know anything about it. Why should you know? I never was so exhausted in my life. But it isn't unpleasant. A thousand emotions have swept through me to-night. I don't comprehend half on them. Don't mind what I'm saying; I am just thinking aloud. ~ Kate Chopin
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She felt as if a mist had been lifted from her eyes, enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life, that monster made up of beauty and brutality. ~ Kate Chopin
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Has she," asked the Doctor, with a smile, "has she been associating of late with a circle of pseudo-intellectual women - super-spiritual superior beings? My wife has been telling me about them. ~ Kate Chopin
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Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life. ~ Kate Chopin
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She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before. ~ Kate Chopin
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She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth. ~ Kate Chopin
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I couldn't help loving you if you were ten times his wife; but so long as I went away from you and kept away I could help telling you so. ~ Kate Chopin
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You are burnt beyond recognition, he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage. She held up her hands, strong, shapely hands, and surveyed them critically, drawing up her fawn sleeves above the wrists. Looking at them reminded her of her rings, which she had given to her husband before leaving for the beach. She silently reached out to him, and he, understanding, took the rings from his vest pocket and dropped them into her open palm. She slipped them upon her fingers; then clasping her knees, she looked across at Robert and began to laugh. The rings sparkled upon her fingers. He sent back an answering smile. ~ Kate Chopin
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Don't go; don't go! Oh! Edna, stay with me. ~ Kate Chopin
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We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence. ~ Kate Chopin
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I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion. ~ Kate Chopin
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His manner invited easy confidence. The preliminary stage of becoming acquainted was one which he always endeavored to ignore when a pretty and engaging woman was concerned. ~ Kate Chopin
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Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love. ~ Kate Chopin
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The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels. ~ Kate Chopin
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If ever a fusion of two human beings into one has been accomplished on this sphere it was surely their union. ~ Kate Chopin
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It seemed to be a law of society that hair must be parted and brushed. ~ Kate Chopin
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So the storm passed and every one was happy. ~ Kate Chopin
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She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air. (last lines) ~ Kate Chopin
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She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome. ~ Kate Chopin
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He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it? He himself had his hands full with his brokerage business. ~ Kate Chopin
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I dance with people I despise; amuse myself with men whose only talent lies in their feet, gain the disapprobation of people I honor and respect; return home at day break with my brain in a state which was never intended for it; and arise in the middle of the next day feeling infinitely more, in spirit and flesh like a Liliputian, than a woman with body and soul. Entry (when she was eighteen) in her Commonplace Book, 1868-1869. ~ Kate Chopin
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No multitude of words could have been more significant than those moments of silence, or more pregnant with the first-felt throbbings of desire. ~ Kate Chopin
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She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what. ~ Kate Chopin
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She was fond of her children in an uneven, impulsive way. She would sometimes gather them passionately to her heart; she would sometimes forget them. ~ Kate Chopin
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it. ~ Kate Chopin
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The delicous breath of rain was in the air. ~ Kate Chopin
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No, I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it. ~ Kate Chopin
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In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march. ~ Kate Chopin
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Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her.
"Good-by
because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. Perhaps Doctor Mandelet would have understood if she had seen him
but it was too late; the shore was far behind her, and her strength was gone.
She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. ~ Kate Chopin
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Mrs. Pontellier gave over being astonished, and concluded that wonders would never cease. ~ Kate Chopin
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There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning. ~ Kate Chopin
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For the first time, she recognized the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her early teens, and later as a young woman. The recognition did not lessen the reality, the poignancy of the revelation by any suggestion or promise of instability. The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she had held, she had been denied that which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded. ~ Kate Chopin
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She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have done other than denied and resisted. She wondered if her husband had ever spoken to her like that before. and if she had submitted to his command. Of course she had; she remembered that she had. But she could not realise why or how she should have yielded, feeling as she then did. ~ Kate Chopin
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But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. ~ Kate Chopin
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She was rather handsome than beautiful. Her face was captivating by reason of a certain frankness of expression and a contradictory subtle play of features. ~ Kate Chopin
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She had resolved to never take another step backward. ~ Kate Chopin
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Most women are moody and whimsical. ~ Kate Chopin
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She was a grown young woman when she was overtaken by what she supposed to be the climax of her fate. It was when the face and figure of a great tragedian began to haunt her imagination and stir her senses. The persistence of the infatuation lent it an aspect of genuineness. The hopelessness of it colored it with the lofty tones of a great passion. ~ Kate Chopin
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The stillest hour of the night had come, the hour before dawn, when the world seems to hold its breath. The moon hung low, and had turned from silver to copper in the sleeping sky. ~ Kate Chopin
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Why? Because his hair is brown and grows away from his temples; because he opens and shuts his eyes, and his nose is a little out of drawing; because he has two lips and a square chin, and a little finger which he can't straighten from having played baseball too energetically in his youth. Because - ~ Kate Chopin
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She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself. ~ Kate Chopin
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But she laughed and looked at him with eyes that at once gave him courage to wait and made it torture to wait. ~ Kate Chopin
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She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day. ~ Kate Chopin
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Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly. ~ Kate Chopin
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world. ~ Kate Chopin
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Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband's friend Richards was there, too, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard's name leading the list of "killed." He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.

She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister's arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.

There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul. (opening lines) ~ Kate Chopin
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There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,
when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation. ~ Kate Chopin
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She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry. ~ Kate Chopin
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Feeling secure regarding their happiness and welfare, she did not miss them except with an occasional, intense longing. ~ Kate Chopin
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Don't stir all the warmth out of your coffee; drink it. ~ Kate Chopin
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One who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul ~ Kate Chopin
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She grew fond of her husband, realizing with some unaccountable satisfaction that no trace of passion or excessive and fictitious warmth colored her affection, thereby threatening its dissolution. ~ Kate Chopin
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She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. ~ Kate Chopin
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The Doctor ... told the old ever-new and curious story of the waning of a woman's love, seeking strange, new channels, only to return to its legitimate source after days of fierce unrest. ~ Kate Chopin
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It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows. ~ Kate Chopin
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Edna looked straight before her with a self-absorbed expression upon her face. She felt no interest in anything about her. The street, the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic. ~ Kate Chopin
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Since I was a girl I always felt as if I would like to write stories. I never had that ambition or shine to make a name; first place because I knew what time and labor it meant to acquire a literary style. Second place, because whenever I wanted to write a story I never could think of a plot. ~ Kate Chopin
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The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman. ~ Kate Chopin
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There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips. ~ Kate Chopin
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The eyes alone in the baby suggested the man. And ~ Kate Chopin
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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery. ~ Kate Chopin
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She reminded him of some beautiful, sleek animal waking up in the sun. ~ Kate Chopin
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In short, Mrs. Pontellier was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recongize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman of twenty-eight - perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman. ~ Kate Chopin
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She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves. ~ Kate Chopin
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She put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades to see if my wings were strong. ~ Kate Chopin
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Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long. ~ Kate Chopin
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Many had predicted that Robert would devote himself to Mrs. Pontellier when he arrived. Since the age of fifteen, which was eleven years before, Robert each summer at Grand Isle had constituted himself the devoted attendant of some fair dame or damsel. Sometimes it was a young girl, again a widow; but as often as not it was some interesting married woman. ~ Kate Chopin
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As the devoted wife of a man that worshiped her, she felt she would take her place with a certain dignity in the world of reality, closing the portals forever behind her upon the realm of romance and dreams ~ Kate Chopin
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There are periods of despondency and suffering which take possession of me. But I don't want anything but my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others- ~ Kate Chopin
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The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached. ~ Kate Chopin
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She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women. ~ Kate Chopin
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Goodbye -- Because I love you. ~ Kate Chopin
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The lovers were just entering the grounds of the pension. They were leaning toward each other as the water oaks bent from the sea. There was not a particle of earth beneath their feet. Their heads might have been turned upside down, so absolutely did they tread upon blue ether. ~ Kate Chopin
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... there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature ... And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being. ~ Kate Chopin
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The rain beat softly upon the shingles, inviting them to drowsiness and sleep. But they dared not yield. The rain was over; and the sun was turning the glistening world into a palace of gems. ~ Kate Chopin
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Edna felt depressed rather than soothed after leaving them. The little glimpse of domestic harmony which had been offered her, gave her no regret, no longing. It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an apalling and hopeless ennui. She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle, - a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium. Edna vaguely wondered what she meant by "life's delirium." It had crossed her thought like some unsought, extraneous impression. ~ Kate Chopin
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The children were sent to bed. Some went submissively; others with shrieks and protests as they were dragged away. They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence. ~ Kate Chopin
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Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions. ~ Kate Chopin
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A letter concerns no one but the person who writes it and the one to whom it is written. ~ Kate Chopin
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Every step which she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion as an individual. ~ Kate Chopin
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How long will you be gone?"
"Forever, perhaps. I don't know. It depends upon a good many things. ~ Kate Chopin
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