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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne föddes den 4 juli 1804 och dog den 19 mei 1864 - master of the allegorical and symbolic tale. One of the greatest fiction writers in American literature.
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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.

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream . . .

No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

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

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, which cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet and artist has actually expressed

Poetry

Punishment of a miser - to pay the drafts of his heir in his tomb

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Religion

See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Shall we never, never get rid of this Past? cried he, keeping up the earnest tone of his preceding conversation. "It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body."

Shame, Depair, Soltude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones,- and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss."

She named the infant `Pearl', as being of great price - purchased with all she had.

So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death

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