She burned too bright for this world.
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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A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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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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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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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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Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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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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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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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.
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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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