Quote#Kindness
She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle — a…
Quote byKate Chopin · 1850–1904
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Awakening (1899).
English (original)
She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle — a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.
— Kate Chopin
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