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"The years that are gone seem like dreams -if one might go on…
Quote byKate Chopin · 1850–1904
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Awakening (1899).
English (original)
"The years that are gone seem like dreams -if one might go on sleeping and dreaming- but to wake up and find -oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all ones life."
— 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.
As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself.
Looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of property which has suffered some damage.
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.
An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her with a vague anguish...like a shadow... a mist passing across her soul's summer day.
She could only realize that she herself — her present self — was in some way different from the other self. That she was seeing with different eyes.