Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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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Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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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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The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.
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Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
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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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You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
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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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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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I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
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But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm’s length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I’ll rest.
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In secret pleasure — secret tears, This changeful life has slipped away.
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You know, I’ve had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I’ve survived it’s all because of you.
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