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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 The Awakening (1899)

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

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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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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.

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