“Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you, since you are not free to listen to him or to belong to him.”

—  Kate Chopin , book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

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American author 1850–1904

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