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

— Kate Chopin The Awakening (1899)

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

The Awakening (1899)

"And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost."

The Awakening (1899)

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.

The Awakening (1899)

All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.

The Awakening (1899)

The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.

The Awakening (1899)

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