“My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.”

—  Nathaniel Hawthorne , book The Scarlet Letter

Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter IV: The Interview

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