Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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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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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 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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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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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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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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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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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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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