I’ll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
EMILY BRONTEIt is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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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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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Honest people don’t hide their deeds.
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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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How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves. But if you be afraid of your touchiness, you must ask pardon, mind, when she comes in.
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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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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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Nay, you’ll be ashamed of me everyday of your life,” he answered; “and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
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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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Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!
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Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
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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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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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