The Mask
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
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The Mask
Tag: nathaniel hawthorne
Wading in Still Water
Photographer Unknown, (Wading in Still Water)
“It is a good lesson – though it may often be a hard one – for a man… to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.”
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The Faun
Photographer Unknown, (The Faun)
“He gave the idea of a being not precisely man, nor yet a child, but, in a high and beautiful sense, an animal- a creature in a state of development less than what mankind has attained, yet the more perfect within itself for that very deficiency.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Marble Faun”
Nathaniel Hawthorne: “It is a Good Lesson for a Man to Step Outside of the Narrow Circle”
Photographer Unknown, (Jeans and Sneakers)
“It is a good lesson – though it may often be a hard one – for a man… to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.”
―
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