
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der Marmorfaun (orig.: The Marble Fawn, 1860), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Emi Ehm, Fischer Bücherei (Fischer Bibliothek der Hundert Bücher) Frankfurt am Main und Hamburg 1964, S. 85
(Original engl.: "As these busts in the block of marble," thought Miriam, "so does our individual fate exist in the limestone of time. We fancy that we carve it out; but its ultimate shape is prior to all our action." - The Marble Faun. Kapitel 13 A Sculptor's Studio. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/mf13.html