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Quotation from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“every human being who suffers any thing evil to get into his nature, or to remain there, is a kind of Minotaur, an enemy of his fellow-creatures, and separated from all good companionship, as this poor monster was.”
Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur (Project Gutenberg #976)
When Theseus finds the lonely, raging Minotaur at the center of the labyrinth, the narrator turns to his young listeners.
Citation: "every human being who suffers any thing evil to get into his nature, or to remain there, is a kind of Minotaur, an enemy of his fellow-creatures, and separated from all good companionship, as this poor monster was." — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur (Project Gutenberg #976). (id tanglewood-tales-q1)
Portrait: Tanglewood.Tales.cover, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Public domain.
