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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

  Depression, Sorry, Struggle

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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

  Sky, Space, Water

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.71

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• 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.

  Kate Chopin

  Past, Lessons, Awakening

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.116

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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

  Tired, Night, Thinking

  Kate Chopin (2013). “The Awakening: And Selected Short Stories - Beyond the Bayou, Ma'ame Pelagie, Desiree's Baby, Respectable Woman, Kiss, Pair of Silk Stockings, Locket, Reflection (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.41, Lulu Press, Inc

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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

  Passion, Flames, White

  Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.845, Delphi Classics

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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

  Eight, Soul, Twenties

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.33

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• She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

  Kate Chopin

  Love, Shining, Missing

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.69

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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

  Dream, Reality, Soul

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.81

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• Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful. She trusted she did them no injustice in thus condemning them as a race. She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft-spoken was he. One day he was arrested for stabbing his wife. She never knew whether he had been hanged or not.

  Kate Chopin

  Exercise, Race, People

  Kate Chopin (2011). “The Awakening and Other Writings”, p.94, Broadview Press

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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

  Editors, Giving, Secret

  1899 'On Certain Brisk Days', in the St Louis Post -Dispatch, 26 Nov.

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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

  Healing, Thinking, Pleasure

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.277

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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

  Heart, Suffering, Prejudice

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.292

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• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  Kate Chopin

  Literature, Matter, Lace

  Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.222, Delphi Classics

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• 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 don't 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

  Sex, Character, Thinking

  Kate Chopin (2000). “The Awakening and Other Stories: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.315, Modern Library

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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

  Crush, Hands, Gnarly

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.187, Xist Publishing

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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

  Regret, Kissing, Dull

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.219

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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

  Lying, Book, Home

  Kate Chopin, Per Seyersted, Emily Toth (1979). “A Kate Chopin miscellany”, Northwestern State Univ

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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

  Distance, Love You, Doctors

  Kate Chopin, Sheri Metzger (2009). “CliffsComplete The Awakening”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself.

  Kate Chopin

  Long, Emotion, Conviction

  Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.219, Delphi Classics

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• Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you, since you are not free to listen to him or to belong to him.

  Kate Chopin

  Love You, Writing, Trying

  Kate Chopin (2016). “THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South”, p.103, e-artnow

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• Why?" asked her companion. "Why do you love him when you ought not to?" Edna, with a motion or two, dragged herself on her knees before Mademoiselle Reisz, who took the glowing face between her two hands. "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 - " "Because you do, in short," laughed Mademoiselle.

  Kate Chopin

  Baseball, Eye, Squares

  Kate Chopin (2016). “THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South”, p.104, e-artnow

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