But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
Source: The Awakening, 1899.
-- Kate Chopin, (Feb 8 1851-1904), US author; She was known as an interpreter of New Orleans culture; wrote The Awakening, 1899.