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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.

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Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, ch. 38.

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Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." The Awakening and Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 38.

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Learning that color is a fiction of light is one of the primary shocks of growing up: that this hitherto deeply physical thing is just a reflection and that nothing can keep its color under the cover of darkness, are monstrous things to understand, even for my adult mind.

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Dean, Tacita. Colour: Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by David Batchelor. MIT Press, 2008, p. 235.

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