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“I'm tired," she uttered complainingly.
"I know you are."
"You don't know anything about it. Why should you know? I never was so exhausted in my life. But it isn't unpleasant. A thousand emotions have swept through me to-night. I don't comprehend half on them. Don't mind what I'm saying; I am just thinking aloud.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off.”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

“No multitude of words could have been more significant than those moments of silence or more pregnant with the first-felt throbbings of desire.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Stories

“Edna was a little miss, just merging into her teens; and the realization that she herself was nothing, nothing, nothing to the engaged young man was a bitter affliction to her.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening and Selected Stories