The years that are gone seem like dreams—if one might go on sleeping and dreaming—but to wake up and find—oh! well! Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, ch. 38.
Current Citation
Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." The Awakening and Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 38.