Quote #63
Easy reading is damn hard writing.
More from Nathaniel Hawthorne
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- The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
- All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
- What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
- Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.