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.
EMILY BRONTEI have fled my country and gone to the heather.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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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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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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No coward soul is mine.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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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 have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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I never told my love vocally still.
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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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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