There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.
(Rappaccini's Daughter, 1844)
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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