Kate Chopin - The Awakening (1899)

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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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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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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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