Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
EMILY BRONTEThe tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world’s tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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No coward soul is mine.
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I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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