"I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldnt give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me."

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Source : Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.122

Kate Chopin

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