That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.


Novels (ed. Library of America, 1983) - ISBN: 9780940450080

Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just...

That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just...

That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just...

That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just...