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.
EMILY BRONTEIf he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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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Terror made me cruel.
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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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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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