I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
EMILY BRONTEI am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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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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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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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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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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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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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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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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