Kate Chopin Quotes

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• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of…
• To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And,…
• But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such…
• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
• 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…
• Have you ever heard the earth breath?
• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
• 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,…
• She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright…
• 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…
• So the storm passed and every one was happy.
• A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water
• 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…
• And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.
• It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.
• 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…
• Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to…
• 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…
• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain -…
• 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…

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