The Marble Faun quotes
6 quotes from The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
The Marble Faun
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I did what ought to be done to a traitor!” he replied. “I did what your eyes bade me do, when I asked them with mine, as I held the wretch over the precipice!
The deed knots us together, for time and eternity, like the coil of a serpent!
Sin has educated Donatello, and elevated him.
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens, and wall-flowers need ruin to make them grow.
I know, but may not tell,” replied Kenyon, smiling mysteriously. “On that point, at all events, there shall be not one word of explanation.
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