I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
EMILY BRONTEI will walk where my own nature would be leading.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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 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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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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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 will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.
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Terror made me cruel.
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Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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How cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling.
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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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If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
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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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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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A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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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.
EMILY BRONTE