“Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning.”

Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne (July 1851); published in Memories of Hawthorne (1897) by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, p. 158

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American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818–1891

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