# Quote — Kate Chopin, The Awakening

> She was moved by a kind of commiseration for Madame Ratignolle — a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.

- Author: [Kate Chopin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-chopin.md)
- Book: [The Awakening](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-chopin/the-awakening.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-chopin/the-awakening/she-was-moved

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> "I've been seeing the waves and the white beach of Grand Isle; the quiet, grassy street of the Chênière Caminada; the old sunny fort at Grand Terre. I've been working with a little more comprehension than a machine, and still feeling like a lost soul."

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> The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.

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> "She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth."

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