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So does he live, seeking, finding, joying and suffering.

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What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the...more

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It sometimes entered Mr. Pontellier's mind to wonder if his wife were not growing a little unbalanced mentally. He could see plainly that she was not ...more

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Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; he did not understand. He would never understand. P...more

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It seems to me if I were young and in love I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

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…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will up...more

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Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday ...more