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Kate Chopin

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories

  • Irina Naumovaцитує10 місяців тому
    At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life—that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.
  • Irina Naumovaцитує10 місяців тому
    Nothing," returned Mrs. Pontellier, with a start, adding at once: "How stupid! But it seems to me it is the reply we make instinctively to such a question. Let me see," she went on, throwing back her head and narrowing her fine eyes till they shone like two vivid points of light. "Let me see. I was really not conscious of thinking of anything; but perhaps I can retrace my thoughts."
  • Irina Naumovaцитує10 місяців тому
    The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.
  • Gulay Jabrailzadehцитує2 роки тому
    To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts—absolute gifts—which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul.
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    Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life
  • CLspцитує4 роки тому
    The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies."
  • CLspцитує4 роки тому
    Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost."
  • CLspцитує4 роки тому
    you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it."
  • CLspцитує4 роки тому
    "I am destined to see you only by accident,"
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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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