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“ ”We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
About Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (4 July 1804 – 19 May 1864) was an American writer remembered for his romance novels (The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, and The Marble Faun) and short stories.
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We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.
Additional quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Her breast, with its badge of shame, was but the softer pillow for the head that needed one.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so in exorable as one's self!
Thus I did with Susan as with most other things in my earlier days, dipping her image into my mind and coloring it of a thousand fantastic hues, before I could see her as she really was.