You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreamin… - Kate Chopin

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You have been a very foolish boy, wasting your time dreaming of impossible things when you speak of Mr. Pontellier setting me free! I am no longer one of Mr. Pontelliere's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose. If he were to say, 'here Robert, take her and be happy; she is yours,' I should laugh at you both

Kate Chopin

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Kate Chopin (born Katherine O'Flaherty; February 8, 1851 – August 22, 1904) was an American author of short stories and novels.

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Pen Names: La Tour

Birth Name: Katherine O'Flaherty

Alternative Names: Catherine O'Flaherty

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All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.

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 ones life.

She could only realize that she herself — her present self — was in some way different from the other self. That she was seeing with different eyes.

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