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Nathaniel Hawthorne byl americký spisovatel románů a povídek.

✵ 4. červenec 1804 – 19. květen 1864
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Nathaniel Hawthorne nejznámější citáty

„Největší překážkou hrdinství je pochybnost, zda se člověk neukáže jako hlupák; nejpravdivější hrdinství je odolat pochybnostem a nejhlubší moudrost je poznat, kdy je třeba se jim bránit a kdy je třeba je poslechnout.“

Nathaniel Hawthorne

„Naším nejbližším přítelem není ten, komu ukážeme to nejhorší, ale to nejlepší z naší povahy.“

Nathaniel Hawthorne

„Budoucnost je plna výzev a nadějí.“

Nathaniel Hawthorne

„Jemným a krásným skutečnostem rozumíme nejlépe, jsou-li proměněny v éter vzdáleností v čase.“

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne citáty a výroky

„Štěstí je jako motýl. Když jej pronásledujeme, vždy nám uletí. Když se ale v klidu posadíme, možná na nás usedne.“

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Zdroj: [Exley, Helen, Pro klid v duši 365 : Citáty na každý den, Zuzana Pavlová, Slovart, Praha, 2018, 368, 978-80-7529-518-7, 260]

„Je ovšem pravda, že když autor vydá svou knihu napospas, nehodlá jí promlouvat k těm mnohým, kteří ji s nechutí odhodí nebo vůbec nevezmou do ruky, ale k těm několika, kdo ho pochopí, třeba líp než většina jeho spolužáků a vrstevníků.“

Nathaniel Hawthorne

„Ženská cudnost se skládá, stejně jako cibule, z celé řady vrstev.“

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Originál: (en) A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
Zdroj: [Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 2004, Passages from the English Note Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Kessinger Publishing, 75, angličtina]

„Železným pravidlem našich dnů je požadovat od života cíl a účel. Z nás všech se činí součástky složitého soukolí pokroku, který nás může přivést jedině do studenějších a bezútěšnějších končin, než v jakých jsme se narodili. Trvá se na tom, aby každý něco přidal - třeba špetičku, ale vydřenou neúnavným úsilím - k nahromaděné kupě užitečnosti, jež bude užitečná jen k tomu, aby naše potomstvo zavalila ještě tíživějšími myšlenkami a nezřízenější lopotou než nás. Žádný život dnes neplyne jako nespoutaná řeka, i nejnepatrnější potůček má své mlýnské kolo. Z příliš usilovného odhodlání jít naprosto správně jdeme naprosto špatně.“

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Nathaniel Hawthorne: Citáty anglicky

“A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter

Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XII: The Minister's Vigil

“The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The House of the Seven Gables

Zdroj: The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. I : The Old Pyncheon Family

“Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter

Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter X: The Leech and His Patient

“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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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter

Introduction: The Custom-House
The Scarlet Letter (1850)

“It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Marble Faun

Volume I, Chapter XXI.
The Marble Faun (1860)

“Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha Wakefield

"Wakefield" (1835) from Twice Told Tales (1837, 1851)

“Let the black flower blossom as it may!”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter

Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XIV: Hester and the Physician

“Can the philosopher, big with the inspiration of an idea that is to reform mankind, believe that he is to be beckoned from this sensible existence at the very instant when he is mustering his breath to speak the word of light? Should he perish so, the weary ages must pass away—the world's, whose life sand may fall, drop by drop—before another intellect is prepared to develop the truth that might have been uttered then. But history affords many an example where the most precious spirit… has gone hence… The prophet dies, and the man of torpid heart and sluggish brain lives on. The poet leaves his song half sung, or finishes it, beyond the scope of mortal ears… The painter—as Allston did—leaves half his conception on the canvas to sadden us with its imperfect beauty, and goes to picture forth the whole… in the hues of heaven. But rather such incomplete designs of life will be perfected nowhere. This so frequent abortion of man's dearest projects must be taken as proof that the deeds of earth, however etherealized by piety or genius, are without value, except as exercises and manifestations of the spirit.”

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"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter

Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter II: The Market-Place

“You are my evil spirit… you and the hard course world!”

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as spoken by Owen Warland
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gaiety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Maypole of Merry Mount

"The Maypole of Merry Mount" (1836) from Twice-Told Tales (1837, 1851)

“There was nothing so antipodal to his nature as this man's cold, unimaginative sagacity, by contact with which everything was converted into a dream except the densest matter of the physical world.”

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"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“As if the butterfly, like the artist, were conscious of something not entirely congenial in the child's nature, it alternately sparkled and grew dim. At length it arose from the small hand of the infant with an airy motion that seemed to bear it upward without an effort, as if the ethereal instincts with which its master's spirit had endowed it impelled this fair vision involuntarily to a higher sphere. Had there been no obstruction, it might have soared into the sky and grown immortal. But its lustre gleamed upon the ceiling; the exquisite texture of its wings brushed against that earthly medium; and a sparkle or two, as of stardust, floated downward and lay glimmering on the carpet.”

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"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“"Never, never!" whispered she. "What we did had a consecration of its own."”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter

Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XVII: The Pastor and His Parishioner

“When the Artist rises high enough to achieve the Beautiful, the symbol by which he makes it perceptible to mortal senses becomes of little value in his eyes, while his spirit possesses itself in the enjoyment of the reality.”

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As quoted in "Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1851) http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hahm.html by Herman Melville

“Nervous and excitable persons need to talk a great deal, by way of letting off their steam.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

December 1853
Notebooks, The English Notebooks (1853 - 1858)

“The young have less charity for aged follies than the old for those of youth.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Wedding Knell

"The Wedding Knell" (1837) from Twice-Told Tales (1837, 1851)

“Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter

Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter IX: The Leech

“Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one — none, certainly, of anything like a similar importance — to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The House of the Seven Gables

Zdroj: The House of the Seven Gables (1851), Ch. XXI : The Departure

“A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats. You may strip off the outer ones without doing much mischief, perhaps none at all; but you keep taking off one after another, in expectation of coming to the inner nucleus, including the whole value of the matter. It proves, however, that there is no such nucleus, and that chastity is diffused through the whole series of coats, is lessened with the removal of each, and vanishes with the final one which you supposed would introduce you to the hidden pearl.”

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16 March 1854
Notebooks, The English Notebooks (1853 - 1858)

“The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.”

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Twice-Told Tales, Preface http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/tttpf.html (1851)

“Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,—only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.”

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as spoken by Peter Hovenden
"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“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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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter

Zdroj: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter V: Hester at Her Needle

“If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Scarlet Letter

Introduction: The Custom-House
The Scarlet Letter (1850)

“I seriously wished—selfish as it may appear—that the reformation of society had been postponed about half a century, or, at all events, to such a date as should have put my intermeddling with it entirely out of the question.”

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Nathaniel Hawthorne kniha The Blithedale Romance

The Blithedale Romance (1852)

“In heaven, all ordinary thought is higher and more melodious than Milton's song. Then, would he add another verse to any strain that he had left unfinished here?”

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"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“In a word, the heavy weight upon his spirits kept everything in order, not merely within his own system, but wheresoever the iron accents of the church clock were audible.”

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"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“America is now wholly given over to a d—d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash — and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? — worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.”

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Letter to William D. Ticknor (9 January 1855)

“So long as we love life for itself, we seldom dread the losing it. When we desire life for the attainment of an object, we recognize the frailty of its texture. But, side by side with this sense of insecurity, there is a vital faith in our invulnerability to the shaft of death while engaged in any task that seems assigned by Providence as our proper thing to do, and which the world would have cause to mourn for should we leave it unaccomplished.”

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"The Artist of the Beautiful" (1844)

“While the lime-burner was struggling with the horror of these thoughts, Ethan Brand rose from the log, and flung open the door of the kiln. The action was in such accordance with the idea in Bertram's mind, that he almost expected to see the Evil One issue forth, red-hot, from the raging furnace.
Hold! hold!" cried he, with a tremulous attempt to laugh; for he was ashamed of his fears, although they overmastered him. "Don't, for mercy's sake, bring out your Devil now!"
"Man!" sternly replied Ethan Brand, "what need have I of the Devil? I have left him behind me, on my track. It is with such half-way sinners as you that he busies himself. Fear not, because I open the door. I do but act by old custom, and am going to trim your fire, like a lime-burner, as I was once."
He stirred the vast coals, thrust in more wood, and bent forward to gaze into the hollow prison-house of the fire, regardless of the fierce glow that reddened his face. The lime-burner sat watching him, and half suspected this strange guest of a purpose, if not to evoke a fiend, at least to plunge into the flames, and thus vanish from the sight of man. Ethan Brand, however, drew quietly back, and closed the door of the kiln.
"I have looked," said he, "into many a human heart that was seven times hotter with sinful passions than yonder furnace is with fire. But I found not there what I sought. No, not the Unpardonable Sin!"”

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"Ethan Brand" (1850)

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