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

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.
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Sunlight is painting.
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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
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I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.
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I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be adequately reproduced in words, there would have been no need of God’s making it in reality.
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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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Men of cold passions have quick eyes.
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If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative is the heart, which remains the same in all ages; so that commonplaces of a thousand years’ standing are as effective as ever.
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There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
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Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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Darkness Heart Oneself

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