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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.

Charlotte Bronte

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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Addresses Feet Talk
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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Age Memories Year
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Degradation Poverty Synonymous
Reader, I married him.
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Classic Married Reader
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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Independence Last Self
Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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Flirt Flirty Sex Trade
I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand – they only. Know this at last.
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Hand Heart Independence
You transfix me quite.
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Life Person Quiet Transmix
It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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Answer Country People Thank
It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Love Obey Wicked
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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Spring Summer Sunshine
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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Life Nursing Together
Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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Fairy Said Whispering
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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Angel Love Strong
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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Amaze Little Men
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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Force Gentleness Potent
You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
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Love Missing Sleep
You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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Entire Own People World
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
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Loneliness Lonely Single
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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Grave Mistake Quiet Wish
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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Almost Feel Monotony
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Depressing Difficult Page
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Genuine Sleep Tact
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.
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Body Occupation Suffering
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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Affection First Foundation
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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Blame Disconnect Help Pain

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