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Kate Chopin Quotes about Awakening

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Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

Kate Chopin
Suffering, Wake Up, Awakening
The Awakening ch. 38 (1899)

but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

Kate Chopin
Inspirational Life, Awakening, Awakened
Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.208

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

Kate Chopin
Self, World, Awakening
1899 The Awakening, ch.19.

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

Kate Chopin
Children, Giving Up, Awakening
Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.122

Even as a child she had lived her own small life within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life - that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions.

Kate Chopin
Children, Inward, Awakening
Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.35

A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.

Kate Chopin
Light, Dawn, Awakening
Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.33

The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant.

Kate Chopin
Past, Lessons, Awakening
Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.116

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