I don’t do what I do to convince people. I do it to help the haunted who have no choice but to believe.”
“fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.”
― The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
― The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
“It was not despair; but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promise broken and unfulfilled.”
― The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
― The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
“There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,—when it did not seem worth while to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead;”
― The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
― The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
“Your manner has not misled me, Mrs. Pontellier," he said finally. "My own emotions have done that. I couldn't help it. When I'm near you, how could I help it?”
― The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
― The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
“To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts—absolute gifts—which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul.”
― The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
― The Awakening and Selected Short Stories
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