it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (4 July 1804 – 19 May 1864) was an American writer remembered for his romance novels (The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun) and short stories.
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Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.
To persons whose pursuits are insulated from the common business of life—who are either in advance of mankind or apart from it—there often comes a sensation of moral cold that makes the spirit shiver as if it had reached the frozen solitudes around the pole. What the prophet, the poet, the reformer, the criminal, or any other man with human yearnings, but separated from the multitude by a peculiar lot, might feel, poor Owen felt.
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