Kate Chopin, The Awakening Quotes
The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies
She was flushed and felt intoxicated with the sound of her own voice and the unaccustomed taste of candor. It muddled her like wine, or like a first breath of freedom.
There was a dull pang of regret because it was not the kiss of love which had inflamed her, because it was not love which had held this cup of life to her lips.
She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.
Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.
It seems to me if I were young and in love I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.
She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
I leave such ventures ti you younger men with the fever of life still in your blood.
A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her, —the light which, showing the way, forbids it.
She wanted to destroy something. The crash and clatter were what she wanted to hear.
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.
She was happy to be alive and breathing, when her whole being seemed to be one with the sunlight, the color, the odors, the luxuriant warmth of some perfect Southern day.
She felt that her speech was voicing the incoherency her thoughts, and stopped abruptly.