My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world – the … affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEI think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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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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I 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!
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He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
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You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
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Remorse is the poison of life.
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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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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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You transfix me quite.
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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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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