"Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments."
— Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864)
Work Title
Date
March 1843
Metaphor
"Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments."
Metaphor in Context
When the dream had shaped itself perfectly in his memory, Aylmer sat in his wife's presence with a guilty feeling. Truth often finds its way to the mind close muffled in robes of sleep, and then speaks with uncompromising directness of matters in regard to which we practise an unconscious self-deception during our waking moments. Until now he had not been aware of the tyrannizing influence acquired by one idea over his mind, and of the lengths which he might find in his heart to go for the sake of giving himself peace.
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "The Birth-Mark." First published in the Pioneer. March, 1843. Reprinted in Mosses from an Old Manse. London, Wiley & Putnam,1846. <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
03/24/2010
