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Upon Quotes by Kate Chopin
- 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…
- There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon 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…
- There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- …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…
- She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him…
- The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction.
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