Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.
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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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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Reader, I married him.
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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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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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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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Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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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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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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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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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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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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Your will shall decide your destiny.
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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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