The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
EMILY BRONTEI have fled my country and gone to the heather.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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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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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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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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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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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I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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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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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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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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Terror made me cruel.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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