The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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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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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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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There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou – Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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No coward soul is mine.
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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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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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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 astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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