Nathanial Hawthorne
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“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought to play, it loves more readily than it hates.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine characters and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or--and the outward semblance is the same--crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
“She wanted--what some people want throughout life--a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
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