The Haunted Mind by Nathaniel Hawthorne
LitReading - Classic Short Stories
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The Nightmare of the Soul
"Do you remember any act of enormous folly at which you would blush even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your shame and pass wretched band well for the wakeful one," he writes. "What if remorse should assume the features of an injured friend?" asks a character who has been haunted by demons all his life. 'How pleasant in these night solitudes would be the rise and fall of a softer breathing than your own,' says another, adding: 'The quiet throb of a purer heart imparting its peacefulness to your troubled one'
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