“They stood, as it were, in an utter solitude, which would be made none the less solitary by the densest throng of human life.”
― Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
― Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
“and yet the intimation of a view of her character opposite to his own, gave instantaneous distinctness to a thousand dim suspicions, which now grinned at him like so many demons.”
― Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
― Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
“And so the father of lies is the father of inversions, and as a lie exists in parasitic relationship to the truth, so the Enemy exists in relationship to God, the inversion of the good.”
― The Dragon's Prophecy: Israel, the Dark Resurrection, and the End of Days
― The Dragon's Prophecy: Israel, the Dark Resurrection, and the End of Days
“Sometimes a useful delusion is better than a useless truth.”
― The Underground Railroad
― The Underground Railroad
“Imagination, by casting certain circumstances judicially into the shade, may see much to admire”
― Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
― Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories
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