Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Art
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It contributes greatly towards a mans moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Health
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Happiness
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Death
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. – W. H. Auden

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Death

Theres stuff I dont like to rehearse, really emotional things, I dont like to rehearse. You just beat it to death. – Kat Dennings

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Death

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I cant help but cry. I mean Id love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff. – Mariah Carey

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Death

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. – Hannah Arendt

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Death

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. – Plato, Ion

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History

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art. – Thom Mayne

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Society

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. – Oscar Wilde

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Love

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. – Henry Louis Mencken, “Sententiae,” This and That: A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1948

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Integrity