I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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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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She burned too bright for this world.
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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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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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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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