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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to ...more

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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.

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As far as my experience of matrimony goes -- I think it tends to draw you out of, and away from yourself.

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Those who live in retirement, whose lives have fallen amid the seclusion of schools or of other walled-in and guarded dwellings, are liable to be sudd...more

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I tired of the routine of eight years in one afternoon.

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The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

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My sister Emily first declined. The details of her illness are deep-branded in my memory, but to dwell on them, either in thought or narrative, is not...more

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I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I abandoned it and fram...more

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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as ...more

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Provided with a case of pencils, and some sheets of paper, I used to take a seat apart from them, near the window, and busy myself in sketching fancy ...more

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Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corr...more

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Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

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But as his wife - at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked - forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it t...more

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Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spe...more

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When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoughts and feelings, and endeavored to bring back wit...more