I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
EMILY BRONTEMay you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Terror made me cruel.
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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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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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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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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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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Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
EMILY BRONTE