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.
EMILY BRONTEIf 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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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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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.
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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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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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 was attached by ties stronger than reason could break — chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.
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Terror made me cruel.
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