# Quote — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

> In view of my previous weariness of office, and vague thoughts of resignation, my fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

- Author: [Nathaniel Hawthorne](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne.md)
- Book: [The Scarlet Letter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-scarlet-letter.md)
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> It is a good lesson — though it may often be a hard one — for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world’s dignitaries by such means, to step aside out of the narrow circle in which his claims are recognized, and to find how utterly devoid of all significance, beyond that circle, is all that he achieves, and all he aims at.

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> I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

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