Kate Chopin Quotes

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• Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

  Kate Chopin

  Suffering, Wake Up, Awakening

  The Awakening ch. 38 (1899)

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• A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.

  Kate Chopin

  Earth, Spectacles

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.172

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• The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

  Kate Chopin

  Artist, Soul, Courageous

  1899 The Awakening, ch.39.

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• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.

  Kate Chopin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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

  Kate Chopin

  Men, Ordinary, Devotion

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.211

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

  Kate Chopin

  Children, Giving Up, Self

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

  Kate Chopin

  Spring, Earth, Benediction

  Kate Chopin (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Kate Chopin (Illustrated)”, p.800, Delphi Classics

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• The way to become rich is to make money, not to save it.

  Kate Chopin

  Way, Making Money, Rich

  Kate Chopin (2016). “THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South”, p.69, e-artnow

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• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  Kate Chopin

  Wind, Tree, Earth

  Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”

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• but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

  Kate Chopin

  Inspirational Life, Awakening, Awakened

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.208

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• There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.

  Kate Chopin

  Memorable, Water, People

  Kate Chopin (2005). “The Awakening - Literary Touchstone”, p.142, Prestwick House Inc

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• Goodbye -- Because I love you.

  Kate Chopin

  Goodbye, Love You

  Kate Chopin (2005). “The Awakening - Spotlight Edition”, p.144, Prestwick House Inc

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• He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

  Kate Chopin

  Self, World, Awakening

  1899 The Awakening, ch.19.

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• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

  Kate Chopin

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  1899 The Awakening, ch.6.

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• I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

  Kate Chopin

  Children, Giving Up, Awakening

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.122

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• Have you ever heard the earth breath?

  Kate Chopin

  Clever, Earth, Branches

  Kate Chopin (1974). “The Storm And Other Stories with THE AWAKENING”

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• The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.

  Kate Chopin

  Strong, Wings, Bird

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.217

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

  Kate Chopin

  Rights, Notion, Eternal

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.170

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• We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else in the world is of any consequence.

  Kate Chopin

  Consequence

  "The Awakening: And Other Stories".

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• She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.

  Kate Chopin

  Wanted, Happens, Knows

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.196

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• She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.

  Kate Chopin

  Smile, Clever, Eye

  Kate Chopin, Nina Baym, Alyssa Harad (2004). “The Awakening and Selected Stories of Kate Chopin”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• So the storm passed and every one was happy.

  Kate Chopin

  Storm

  Kate Chopin (2000). “The Awakening: And Other Stories”, p.559, OUP Oxford

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• Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

  Kate Chopin

  Children, Inward, Awakening

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.35

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• The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.

  Kate Chopin

  Sea, Voice, Seductive

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.300

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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.

  Kate Chopin

  Arbitrary, Cost, Moral

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.151, Kate Chopin

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