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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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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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Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

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I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage...more

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And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error. I believe it was an inspiration rather than a tem...more

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[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.

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Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

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To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation; to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome staircase, to seek my own lonely little room, and ...more

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Women are supposed to be very calm generally; but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts, a...more

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My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a va...more

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God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life...more

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

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Every joy that life gives must be earned ere it be secured; and how hardly earned, those only know who have wrestled for great prizes. The heart’s blo...more

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God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life...more