They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEYour will shall decide your destiny.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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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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Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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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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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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You transfix me quite.
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I am no bird and no net ensnares me
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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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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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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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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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Remorse is the poison of life.
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What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
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