Kate Chopin Short Quotes

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I would give up my life for my children, but not myself.

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She had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

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I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

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

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She reminded him of some beautiful, sleek animal waking up in the sun.

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She wanted something to happen — something, anything; she did not know what.

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We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence.

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She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women.

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

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The peace and beauty of a spring day had descended upon the earth like a benediction.

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

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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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A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, — the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

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There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.

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The beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.

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

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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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One who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul

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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon.

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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

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Well, for instance, when I left her today, she put her arms around me and felt my shoulder blades, to see if my wings were strong, she said.

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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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For the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air, at the mercy of the sun, the breeze that beat upon her, and the waves that invited her.

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She could only realize that she herself — her present self — was in some way different from the other self. That she was seeing with different eyes.

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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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In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

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There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.

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She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.

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