“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.”

—  Kate Chopin , book The Awakening

The Awakening (1899)

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American author 1850–1904

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