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Quotation from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Shall we never, never get rid of this Past?”
The House of the Seven Gables, Chapter XII, The Daguerreotypist (Project Gutenberg #77)
Holgrave goes on to say that the past lies on the present like a giant's dead body that should be decently buried.
Citation: "Shall we never, never get rid of this Past?" — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, Chapter XII, The Daguerreotypist (Project Gutenberg #77). (id the-house-of-the-seven-gables-q6)
Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
