Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
EMILY BRONTEYes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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No coward soul is mine.
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
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