Kate Chopin Quotes

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

Kate Chopin

• Music
• Earth
• Wonder
• Wind
• Tree
• Breathe

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• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

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• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

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• The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.

  

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• And our dreams are who we are.

  

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• I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.

  

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• The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

  

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• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Wonder