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By Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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- The Scarlet Letter, a Romance (first edition), 1850 · Conclusion, p. 317
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- Internet Archive (Duke University Libraries scan of the first edition, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850)
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From the Conclusion of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850). The narrator wonders about the bond between the minister Arthur Dimmesdale and his enemy Roger Chillingworth.