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Kate Chopin: The years that...

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The years that are gone seem like dreams -- if one might go on sleeping and dreaming -- but to wake up and find -- oh! well! perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

Source: The Awakening, Ch. 38, 1889.
-- Kate Chopin, (Feb 8 1851-1904), US author; She was known as an interpreter of New Orleans culture; wrote The Awakening, 1899.


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