You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEIf 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!
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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You transfix me quite.
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Adversity is a good school.
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I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
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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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Shake me off, then, sir–push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.
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You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.
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The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.
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Jane Eyre “I desired more…than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn’t help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
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Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd’s can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.
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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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