The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
EMILY BRONTEEvery leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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Terror made me cruel.
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I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.
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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.
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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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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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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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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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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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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
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Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mate less play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We’ll talk its pensive hours away.
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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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