She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness.  Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.  The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. (The Scarlet Letter, ch. 18, A Flood of Sunshine)

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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.  (The Scarlet Letter, ch. 20, The Minister in a Maze)

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