You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
EMILY BRONTETreachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
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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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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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The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
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I understand that most ladies tend to prefer lap dogs…. Perhaps I am an exception.
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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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That is how I’m loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he’s in my soul.
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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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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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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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