Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
EMILY BRONTEProud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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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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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’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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