I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
EMILY BRONTEIt is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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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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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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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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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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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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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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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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