QUOTES by Kate Chopin
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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.
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Feeling secure regarding their happiness and welfare, she did not miss them except with an occasional, intense longing.
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Don't part from me in any ill humor. I never knew you to be out of patience with me before.
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Every step which she took toward relieving herself from obligations added to her strength and expansion as an individual.
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She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.
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She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.
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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.
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I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much - so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.
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I would give my life for my children, but I wouldn’t give myself. I can’t make it more clear; it’s only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me
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And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.
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Her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an accident, in this respect resembling many other marriages which masquerade as the decrees of Fate.
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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.
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They had been permitted to sit up till after the ice-cream, which naturally marked the limit of human indulgence.
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By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex.
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The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
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If he were to say, 'Here, Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours', I should laugh at you both.
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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.
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One must possess many gifts … which have not been acquired by one’s own effort. And, moreover … the artist must possess the courageous soul.
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[Edna lived] a dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions
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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.
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I have said it before, but I don't think I have ever came so near meaning it.
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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 [...]
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A general air of surprise and genuine satisfaction fell upon everyone as they saw the pianist enter.
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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.
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His coming was in the nature of a welcome disturbance; it seemed to furnish a new direction for her emotions.
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She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
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She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.
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