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Nathaniel Hawthorne foi um escritor norte-americano, considerado o primeiro grande escritor dos Estados Unidos e o maior contista de seu país, sendo o responsável por tornar o puritanismo de sua época um dos temas centrais da tradição gótica. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. Julho 1804 – 19. Maio 1864
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Frases famosas

“Ninguém pode, por muito tempo, ter um rosto para si mesmo e outro para a multidão sem no final confundir qual deles é o verdadeiro.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

No man for any considerate period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne citado em "The American mercury", Volume 58‎ - Página 693, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken - American Mercury, 1944

“As carícias são tão necessárias para a vida dos sentimentos como as folhas para as árvores. Sem elas, o amor morre pela raiz.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections, as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Our old home: a series of English sketches‎ - Página 236 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=-kYgAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA236, Nathaniel Hawthorne - Houghton, Mifflin, 1868 - 380 páginas

“Palavras - tão inocentes e impotentes elas são enquanto imóveis em um dicionário, quão poderosas para o bem e o mal elas se tornam nas mãos de quem sabe como combiná-las.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Frases em inglês

“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne livro The Scarlet Letter

Fonte: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter IV: The Interview

“The white-haired father now approached Ethan Brand, and gazed steadily into his face.
"They tell me you have been all over the earth," said he, wringing his hands with earnestness. "You must have seen my daughter, for she makes a grand figure in the world, and everybody goes to see her. Did she send any word to her old father, or say when she was coming back?"
Ethan Brand's eye quailed beneath the old man's. That daughter, from whom he so earnestly desired a word of greeting, was the Esther of our tale, the very girl whom, with such cold and remorseless purpose, Ethan Brand had made the subject of a psychological experiment, and wasted, absorbed, and perhaps annihilated her soul, in the process.”

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"Ethan Brand" (1850)

“"Heaven! What have I done?" exclaimed he. "The vapor, the influence of that brute force,—it has bewildered me and obscured my perception. I have made the very stroke—the fatal stroke—that I have dreaded from the first. It is all over—the toil of months, the object of my life. I am ruined!"
And there he sat, in strange despair, until his lamp flickered in the socket and left the Artist of the Beautiful in darkness.”

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"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.”

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"Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty." — Charles Simmons, Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, containing over a thousand subjects alphabetically and systematically arranged (1852), p. 20: "Accuracy"
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“Alas that the artist… may not content himself with the inward enjoyment of the beautiful, but must chase the fitting mystery beyond the verge of his ethereal domain, and crush its frail being in seizing it with a material grasp. Owen Warland felt the impulse to give external reality to his ideas as irresistibly as any of the poets or painters who have arrayed the world in a dimmer and fainter beauty, imperfectly copied from the richness of their visions.”

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"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne livro The Marble Faun

Fonte: The Marble Faun (1860), Chapter XLI: Snowdrops and Maidenly Delights

“America is now wholly given over to a d—d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash — and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse?”

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worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.
Letter to William D. Ticknor (9 January 1855)