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Nathaniel Hawthorne

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A woman’s chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one’s family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What we call real estate – the solid ground to build a house on – is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

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