I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
EMILY BRONTEThere 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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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 have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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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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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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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’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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