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You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love.
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Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!
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One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune; one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise cetain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
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To live amidst general regard, though it be but the regard of working people, is like 'sitting in sunshine, calm and sweet': serene inward feelings bud and bloom under the ray.
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While I looked, my inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose; I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life. In that morning my soul grew as fast as Jonah's gourd.
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Does my forehead not please you - Mr Rochester
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Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure.
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How dare I, Mrs Reed? How dare I? Because it is the truth. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity.
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Don't talk to me about her, John: I told you not to go near her; she is not worthy of notice; I do not choose that either you or your sisters should associate with her." Here, leaning over the banister, I cried out suddenly, and without at all deliberating on my words-- "They are not fit to associate with me!"
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if people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and injust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they will never be afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should- so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again
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He is not a ghost; yet every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery. What does it mean? I did not think I should tremble in this way when I saw him, or lose my voice or the power of motion in his presence.
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Ogni atomo della sua carne mi e caro come la mia propria; l'amerei malata, l'amerei infelice. Il suo animo e il mio tesoro e anche se si smarrisse continuerebbe ad esserlo. Se delirasse, le mie braccia la tratterrebbero, e non una camicia di forza; una sua stretta, anche se inconsapevole e feroce, mi alletterebbe e anche se lei mi si avventasse addosso furibonda come ha fatto stamane quella donna, l'accoglierei con un abbraccio energico si,..
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I knew I was catching at straws; but in the wide and weltering deep where I found myself, I would have caught at cobwebs.
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Jane, quedese todavia. No se revuelva como un pajaro hurano que pierde sus plumas contra los alambres de la jaula. --Yo no soy pajaro, ni se me enjaula; soy un ser humano, con una voluntad libre, que ahora ejerzo para separarme de usted.
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My bride is here," he said, again drawing me to him, "because my equal is here, and my likeness. Jane, will you marry me?"
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A loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough; or rather your sternness has a power beyond beauty.
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And yet there were fragments of truth here and there which satisfied the conscience, and gleams of light that cheered the vision.
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Es inutil decir que los seres humanos deberian estar satisfechos de llevar una vida tranquila; han de tener accion, y si no pueden encontrarla, la provocaran de un modo u otro. (...) Por lo general, se supone que las mujeres son muy tranquilas, pero la verdad es que sienten exactamente lo mismo que los hombres. Necesitan ejercitar sus facultades y el mismo margen de maniobra que sus hermanos varones, padecen cuando se las constrine y se la..
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To speak truth, reader, there is no excellent beauty, no accomplished grace, no refinement, without strength as excellent, as complete, as trustworthy.
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Into the hands of common sense I confided the matter. Common sense, however, was as chilled and bewildered as all my other faculties, and it was only under the spur of an inexorable necessity that she spasmodically executed her trust.
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My feet they are sore, and my limbs they are weary; Long is the way, and the mountains are wild; Soon will the twilight close moonless and dreary Over the path of the poor orphan child. Why did they send me so far and so lonely, Up where the moors spread and grey rocks are piled? Men are hard-hearted, and kind angels only Watch o'er the steps of a poor orphan child. Yet distant and soft the night breeze is blowing,
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Charlotte Brontë |
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I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
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What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.
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My bride is here... because my equal is here, and my likeness.
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I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.
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Charlotte Brontë |
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I have not much pride under such circumstances: I would always rather be happy than dignified.
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God did not give me my life to throw away.
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Charlotte Brontë |
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Reader, I married him.
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Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.
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What animal magnetism drew thee and me together--I know not.
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Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.
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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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