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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 upon a fellow creature_And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.
Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour
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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 upon a fellow creature_And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.
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Kate Chopin

The Story of an Hour

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