“Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.”

Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVIII: A Flood of Sunshine

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American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879) 1804–1864

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