At that early period it served but to bewilder her. It moved her to dreaming, to thoughtfulness...
In short, [she] was beginning to realize her position in the universe as a human being, and to recognize her relations as an individual to the world within and about her. This may seem like a ponderous weight of wisdom to descend upon the soul of a young woman... But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.
Even as a child she had lived her own small world all within herself. At a very early period she had apprehended instinctively the dual life---that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions."
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
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MM. Kate Chopin is good. Don't you love it when someone else can say exactly what you want, but cannot say?
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