"I dance with people I despise; amuse myself……" — Kate Chopin
"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."
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69 Quotes by Kate Chopin
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I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not…
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired…
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of…
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the…
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Have you ever heard the earth breath?
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The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in…
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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,…
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course…
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The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response…
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water
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