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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1804
Born: July 4
Died: 1864
Died: May 18
Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Salem
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Hathorne
Monsieur de l'Aubépine
N. H.
Anorexia
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