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!
EMILY BRONTEI can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
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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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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
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Good words,” I replied. “But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don’t forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.
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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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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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Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.
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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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He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!
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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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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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