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“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Preach! Write! Act! Do anything, save to lie down and die!”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“We shall be everything to each other. Nothing else shall be of any consequence.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening