She burned too bright for this world.
EMILY BRONTE
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?
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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She burned too bright for this world.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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