Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
EMILY BRONTEI cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
EMILY BRONTE







