And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
EMILY BRONTENonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.
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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 love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.
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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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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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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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