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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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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1804
Born: July 4
Died: 1864
Died: May 18
Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Salem
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Hathorne
Monsieur de l'Aubépine
N. H.
Suicide
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Death
Moments
Dream
Congratulate
May
Troubled
Sometimes
Funeral
Waking

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