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.
EMILY BRONTEWhatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
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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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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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I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!
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That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
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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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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 never told my love vocally still.
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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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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
EMILY BRONTE