How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
EMILY BRONTEI shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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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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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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