Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
EMILY BRONTEI cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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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 gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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No coward soul is mine.
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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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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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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!
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