What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
(The American Notebooks, 1837)
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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