I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
EMILY BRONTEIf I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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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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Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous.
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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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She burned too bright for this world.
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.
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What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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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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Wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
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No coward soul is mine.
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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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I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
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I cannot love thee; thou ‘rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God’s pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
EMILY BRONTE