Quote#Solitude
The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was…
Quote byKate Chopin · 1850–1904
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Awakening (1899).
English (original)
The present alone was significant; was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting conviction that she had lost that which she had held, that she had been denied that which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded.
— Kate Chopin
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Sometimes I feel this summer as if I were walking through the green meadow again; idly, aimlessly, unthinking, and unguided.
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