He was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
EMILY BRONTEWhatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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 wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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I shall smile when wreaths of snow Blossom where the rose should grow.
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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 am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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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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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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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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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 entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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