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“Bonne nuit, ma reine; soyez sage.”

Kate Chopin

The Awakening

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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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Kate Chopin livre The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

“Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love.”

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Source: The Awakening

“I don't mind walking. 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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“All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.”

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The Awakening (1899)

“As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.”

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The Awakening (1899)

“I've been seeing the waves and the white beach of Grand Isle; the quiet, grassy street of the Chênière Caminada; the old sunny fort at Grand Terre. I've been working with a little more comprehension than a machine, and still feeling like a lost soul.”

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The Awakening (1899)

“Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage.”

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The Awakening (1899)

“She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.”

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The Awakening (1899)

“Edna wondered if they had all gone mad, to be talking and clamoring at that rate. She herself could think of nothing to say about Mexico or the Mexicans.”

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The Awakening (1899)

“The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she had held, that she had been denied that which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded.”

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The Awakening (1899)

“Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again; idly, aimlessly, unthinking, and unguided.”

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The Awakening (1899)

“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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The Awakening (1899)

“There was something in her attitude, in her whole appearance when she leaned her head against the high-backed chair and spread her arms, which suggested the regal woman, the one who rules, who looks on, who stands alone.”

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“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her with a vague anguish…like a shadow… a mist passing across her soul's summer day.”

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“She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle — a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.”

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The Awakening (1899)

“She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.”

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The Awakening (1899)

“You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. 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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The Awakening (1899)

“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 presidential possibilities; I shall proceed to fall in love with him.' or, 'I shall set my heart upon this musician, whose fame is on every tongue?”

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or 'this financier, who controls the world's money markets?'"
The Awakening (1899)

“The years that are gone seem like dreams -if one might go on sleeping and dreaming- but to wake up and find -oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all ones life.”

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The Awakening (1899)

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