No coward soul is mine.
EMILY BRONTEWe must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,’ he answered. ‘Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?
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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’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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They forgot everything the minute they were together again.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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