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“Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“It is a strange experience for a man of pride and feeling to know that his interests are in the control of strangers who don’t like or understand him.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter