What did Nathaniel Hawthorne mean by: A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities. Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA Copy
Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Power., Strength, Weakness, 0 Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
+ But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passion, Principle, Sin, 0 Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Communication, Connection, Love, 0 Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
+ A man’s bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom. Author, September 23, 2023January 2, 2025, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bewilderment, Measure, Wisdom, 0 Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Growth, Poetry, Romance, 0 Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mortality, Reflection, Spirituality, 0 Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self! Read explanation Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Darkness, Reflection, 0 Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. Author, December 28, 2023January 1, 2025, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Conscience, Improbability, 0 Nathaniel Hawthorne Author · USA
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
