The Doctor...told the old ever-new and curious story of the waning of a woman's love, seeking strange, new channels, only to return to its legitimate source after days of fierce unrest.

Kate Chopin


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The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.

Kate Chopin

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She was seeking herself and finding herself in just such sweet, half-darkness which met her moods. But the voices were not soothing that came to her from the darkness and the sky above and the stars. They jeered and sounded mournful notes without promise, devoid even of hope.

Kate Chopin


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a tangle of sea smell and of weeds and damp, new-plowed earth, mingled with the heavy perfumes of white blossoms somewhere near, but the night sat lightly upon the sea and the land. there was no weight of darkness, there were no shadows. the white light of the moon had fallen upon the world like the mystery and the softness of sleep.

Kate Chopin


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Feeling secure regarding their happiness and welfare, she did not miss them except with an occasional, intense longing.

Kate Chopin


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But she laughed and looked at him with eyes that at once gave him courage to wait and made it torture to wait.

Kate Chopin


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I have said it before, but I don't think I have ever came so near meaning it.

Kate Chopin


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If ever a fusion of two human beings into one has been accomplished on this sphere it was surely their union.

Kate Chopin


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Robert's going had some way taken the brightness, the color, the meaning out of everything. The conditions of her life were in no way changed, but her whole existence was dulled, like a faded garment which seems to be no longer worth wearing.

Kate Chopin


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She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry.

Kate Chopin


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