How slowly I have made my way in life! How much is still to be done!
(Letter to Horatio Bridge, 1851)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom. What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self! Death should take me while I am in the mood.
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