They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEI am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal–as we are!
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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You transfix me quite.
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The idea of seeing the sea – of being near it – watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday – in calm, perhaps in storm – fills and satisfies my mind.
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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
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Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.
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I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.
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You transfix me quite.
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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