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There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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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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Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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The trees reflected in the river – they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.
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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.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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Families are always rising and falling in America.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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Salt is white and pure – there is something holy in salt.
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And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.
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At no time are people so sedulously careful to keep their trifling appointments, attend to their ordinary occupations, and thus put a commonplace aspect on life, as when conscious of some secret that if suspected would make them look monstrous in the general eye.
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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
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Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one’s self a fool.
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I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!
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