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“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Forgive me if the wind stole the howl from my mouth and whipped it against your windowpanes. When I lived, I wanted to be seen.”
― Sally Wen Mao, Oculus: Poems

“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter