Quotes by Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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

“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her...”

— Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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“She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.”

— Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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“She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant. She could not at that moment have done other than denied and resisted. She wondered if her husband had ever spoken to her like tha...”

— Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.”

— Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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“She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.”

— Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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“She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.”

— Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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