By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
EMILY BRONTEThe entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee, Thou lonely dreamer now?
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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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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?
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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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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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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 will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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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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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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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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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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