You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
EMILY BRONTEOh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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Vain are the thousand creeds That move men’s hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main.
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I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!
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The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.
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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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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 gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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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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Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?
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I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you – haunt me, then.
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She burned too bright for this world.
EMILY BRONTE







