It is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame. And if that boisterous channel, and two hundred miles or so of land come broad between us, I am afraid that cord of communion will be snapt; and then I've a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly.


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Who told you I was called Carl David?" "A little bird, Monsieur." "Does it fly from me to you? Then ...
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...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeli...
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For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend ...
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I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shephe...
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But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me tha...
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Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
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As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose vo...
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Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you can...
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Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask...
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Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"

Reader, I forgave him ...
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It would take a great deal to crush me
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The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upw...
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When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and...
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I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like t...
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You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
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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 yourse...
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Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they...
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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
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I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ...
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My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long ti...
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Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I h...
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Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, ...
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Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo...
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Quando uma mulher sente desprezo pelo seu marido, o casamento passa a ser uma escravidão, e contra ...
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Detesto l’ardire, l’ardire che appartiene all’arrogante e all’insensibile, ma amo l’audaci...
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I romanzieri non dovrebbero mai consentire a se stessi di stancarsi dell’indagine della vita reale...
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He that is low need fear no fall.
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...there were two gentleman seated by it talking in French;impossible to follow their rapid utteranc...
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. . . for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savor the acrid bit...
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. . . still we are none of us perfect . . .
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I gave, at first, attention close;
Then interest warm ensued;
From interest, as improvem...
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Qué terrible esfuerzo de dejar aquello que queremos
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Un hombre no puede olvidar la devoción que sentía por una mujer así, no debe ser, no puede ser
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It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.
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-Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is...
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A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth
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I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma...
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Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my h...
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I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.
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Pero cuando el dolor termina el recuerdo que queda a veces se transforma en placer
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I verily believe all that is desirable on earth--wealth, reputation, love--will for ever to you be t...
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No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every ma...
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I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion coo...
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Human beings -- human children especially -- seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a pow...
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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructur...
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In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—Nov...
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I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or h...
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Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt...
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He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless s...
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A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forwa...
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Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were rise...
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Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
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Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this du...
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And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error....
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Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate -...
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Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the ...
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I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld ...
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It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a...
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All men must die.
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Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man.
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You are human and fallible.
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