My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
EMILY BRONTEMy love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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