I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
EMILY BRONTEI 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.
More Emily Bronte Quotes
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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 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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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’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
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I never told my love vocally still.
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Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.
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If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.
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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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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
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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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He’ll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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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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And, even yet, I dare not let it languish, Dare not indulge in memory’s rapturous pain; Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world again?
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By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.
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I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
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You’re hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can’t make yourself content.
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Worthless as wither’d weeds.
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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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It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
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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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No coward soul is mine.
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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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I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.
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