There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghostlike, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.
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