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.
EMILY BRONTEHereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air; And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.
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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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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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