After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEMademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
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Reader, I married him.
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I have no wish to talk nonsense.” “If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.
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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.
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It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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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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All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.
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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!
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Adversity is a good school.
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I am no bird and no net ensnares me
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